Anthocyanins are natural water-soluble pigments that are important in plants because they
endow a variety of colors to vegetative tissues and reproductive plant organs, mainly …

Background The bitter and astringent taste of tea and tea extract is still not favored by many
consumers, which limits its applications to bakery foods and functional foods. Many bitter …

The phenylpropanoid pathway gives rise to lignin, flavonoids, and other metabolites and is
regulated by MYB transcription factors. Many R2R3-MYB transcriptional activators are …

Anthocyanins are secondary metabolites derived from the specific branch of the flavonoid
pathway, responsible for red, purple and blue coloration display in the flowers and fruits. The …

The secondary cell wall is an important carbon sink in higher plants and its biosynthesis
requires coordination of metabolic fluxes in the phenylpropanoid pathway. In Arabidopsis …

CRISPR/Cas, one of the most rapidly developing technologies in the world, has been
applied successfully in plant science. To test new nucleases, gRNA expression systems and …

Key message This review illustrates how far we have come since the emergence of GE
technologies and how they could be applied to obtain superior and sustainable crop …

With the perpetuation of soil salinization, it is imperative to improve the salt and alkaline
tolerance of crops. Sorghum bicolor, a C4 crop, is often grown in semiarid areas due to its …

As one of the largest transcription factor families with complex functional differentiation in
plants, the MYB transcription factors (MYB TFs) play important roles in the physiological and …

Forest tree breeding efforts have focused mainly on improving traits of economic importance,
selecting trees suited to new environments or generating trees that are more resilient to …