Light is a crucial environmental cue not only for photosynthetic energy production but also
for plant growth and development. Plants employ sophisticated methods to detect and …

Water scarcity is one of the major causes of poor plant performance and limited crop yields
worldwide and it is the single most common cause of severe food shortage in developing …

Water lilies belong to the angiosperm order Nymphaeales. Amborellales, Nymphaeales and
Austrobaileyales together form the so-called ANA-grade of angiosperms, which are extant …

Light drives plant growth and development, so its control is increasingly used as an
environment-friendly tool to manage horticultural crops. However, this implies a …

Flowering is a hot topic in Plant Biology and important progress has been made in
Arabidopsis thaliana toward unraveling the genetic networks involved. The increasing …

The reproductive (gametophytic) phase in flowering plants is often highly sensitive to hot or
cold temperature stresses, with even a single hot day or cold night sometimes being fatal to …

The expected move towards more sustainable crop-livestock systems implies wider
cultivation of perennial forage legumes. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa subsp. sativa) is the main …

Shifting the seasonal timing of reproduction is a major goal of plant breeding efforts to
produce novel varieties that are better adapted to local environments and changing climatic …

The role of biotic interactions in shaping plant flowering phenology has long been
controversial; plastic responses to the abiotic environment, limited precision of biological …

Given the dramatic rise in high‐cannabinoid hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) production in the
last decade, there is an increasingly urgent need to characterize available germplasm and …