As sessile organisms, plants must tolerate various environmental stresses. Plant hormones
play vital roles in plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Among these hormones …

Frequently changing environmental conditions pose unwarranted threat to plants life and
impose serious penalties in terms of arrested growth, metabolism and ultimately the yield …

In Arabidopsis thaliana, canonical auxin-dependent gene regulation is mediated by 23
transcription factors from the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR (ARF) family that interact with …

Populus spp. are among the most economically important species worldwide. These trees
are used not only for wood and fiber production, but also in the rehabilitation of degraded …

The spermatophyte root system is composed of a primary root that develops from an
embryonically formed root meristem, and of different post-embryonic root types: lateral and …

Despite the scientific evidence supporting their biostimulant activity, the molecular
mechanism (s) underlying the activity of protein hydrolysates (PHs) and the specificity …

The root system architecture describes the shape and spatial arrangement of roots within the
soil. Its spatial distribution depends on growth and branching rates as well as directional …

Adventitious root (AR) development is an extremely complex biological process that is
affected by many intrinsic factors and extrinsic stimuli. Some WUSCHEL-related homeobox …

Compared to seed propagation, clonal propagation is a simpler, faster, and more efficient
method to rapidly expand millions of cuttings from elite germplasms (Gonin et al., 2019; …

Background Tea plant breeding or cultivation mainly involves propagation via cuttings,
which not only ensures the inheritance of the excellent characteristics of the mother plant but …