Water deficit significantly affects global crop growth and productivity, particularly in water-
limited environments, such as upland rice cultivation, reducing grain yield. Plants activate …

NAC transcription factors are plant-specific proteins involved in many processes during the
plant life cycle and responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Previous studies have shown …

Oligosaccharides, as a wide type of polysaccharide, have a broad antimicrobial spectrum
and promote development as plant growth stimulants. To investigate the regulation effects of …

Plant amino acid transporters regulate not only long-distance transport and reallocation of
nitrogen (N) from source to sink organs, but also the amount of amino acids in leaves …

Storage proteins deposited in the endosperm of cereal grains are both a nitrogen reserve for
seed germination and seedling growth and a primary protein source for human nutrition …

Leaf color mutants (LCMs) are important resources for studying diverse metabolic processes
such as chloroplast biogenesis and differentiation, pigments' biosynthesis and …

Chloroplasts play a vital role in plant growth and development, which are the main sites of
photosynthesis and the production of hormones and metabolites. Despite their significance …

This article comments on: Zhang Y, Li Y, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhang D, Wang X, Lai B, Huang
D, Gu L, Xie Y, Miao Y. 2022. Genome-wide H3K9 acetylation level increases with age …

Nitrogen (N) is essential for amino acid synthesis in rice production, but its excessive use
poses an environmental concern. This research aimed to improve rice agronomic nitrogen …

Structural variants (SVs) such as deletions, inversions, duplications, and Transposable El-
ement (TE) Insertion Polymorphisms (TIPs) are prevalent in plant genomes and have played …