Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber,
forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society …

Domestication provides an important model for the study of evolution, and information
learned from domestication research aids in the continued improvement of crop species …

Hybrid rice has greatly contributed to the global increase of rice productivity. A major
component that facilitated the development of hybrids was a mutant showing photoperiod …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is a short‐day (SD) plant originally having strong photoperiod sensitivity
(PS), with SDs promoting and long days (LDs) suppressing flowering. Although the evolution …

Flowering is a critical agricultural trait that substantially affects tomato fruit yield. Although
drought stress influences flowering time, the molecular mechanism underlying drought …

The complex and coordinated regulation of flowering has high ecological and agricultural
significance. The maturity locus E1 has a large impact on flowering time in soybean, but the …

Success of modern agriculture relies heavily on breeding of crops with maximal regional
adaptability and yield potentials. A major limiting factor for crop cultivation is their flowering …

Phenotypic plasticity is ubiquitous and generally regarded as a key mechanism for enabling
organisms to survive in the face of environmental change. Because no organism is infinitely …

One of the key developmental processes in flowering plants is the differentiation of the shoot
apical meristem into a floral meristem. This transition is regulated through the integration of …

Onion (Allium cepa L.) is a biennial crop that in temperate regions is planted in the spring
and, after a juvenile stage, forms a bulb in response to the lengthening photoperiod of late …