Background Maize (Zea mays L.) is a principal cereal crop cultivated worldwide for human
food, animal feed, and more recently as a source of biofuel. However, as a direct …

Over 100 million tonnes of nitrogen (N) fertiliser are applied globally each year to maintain
high yields in agricultural crops. The rising price of N fertilisers has made them a major cost …

Increasing maize grain yield has been a major focus of both plant breeding and genetic
engineering to meet the global demand for food, feed, and industrial uses. We report that …

Drought is a major threat to plant growth and crop productivity. The phytohormone abscisic
acid (ABA) plays a critical role in plant response to drought stress. Although ABA signaling …

Sugars promote lateral root formation at low levels but become inhibitory at high C/N or C/P
ratios. How sugars suppress lateral root formation is unclear, however. Here we report that …

The understanding and mitigation of the appearance of herbicide-resistant weeds have
come to the forefront of study in the past decade, as the number of weed species that are …

MdHB1 down-regulation activates anthocyanin biosynthesis in the white-fleshed apple cultivar
‘Granny Smith’ | Journal of Experimental Botany | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content …

Steady increase in global population poses several challenges to plant science research,
including demand for increased crop productivity, grain yield, nutritional quality and …

Due to an increase in the consumption of food, feed, and fuel and to meet global food
security needs for the rapidly growing human population, there is a necessity to obtain high …

Drought inhibits plant growth and can also induce premature senescence. Here we identify
a transcription factor, ABA INSENSITIVE GROWTH 1 (ABIG1) required for abscisic acid …