Angiosperms, especially Arabidopsis and rice, have long been at the center of plant
research. However, technological advances in sequencing have led to a dramatic increase …

More than half a billion years ago a streptophyte algal lineage began terraforming the
terrestrial habitat and the Earth's atmosphere. This pioneering step enabled the subsequent …

Phytohormones (plant hormones) are a class of small-molecule organic compounds
synthesized de novo in plants. Although phytohormones are present in trace amounts, they …

In angiosperms, the α/β hydrolase DWARF14 (D14), along with the F-box protein MORE
AXILLARY GROWTH2 (MAX2), perceives strigolactones (SL) to regulate developmental …

The sustainable production of crops faces increasing challenges from global climate change
and human activities, which leads to increasing instances of many abiotic stressors to plants …

Different evolutionary lineages have evolved distinct characteristic body plans and
anatomical structures, but their origins are largely elusive. For example, seed plants evolve …

The genomes of charophyte green algae, close relatives of land plants, typically do not show
signs of developmental regulation by phytohormones. However, scattered reports of …

Background Low grain water content (GWC) at harvest of maize (Zea mays L.) is essential
for mechanical harvesting, transportation and storage. Grain drying rate (GDR) is a key …

Plants perceive a multitude of environmental signals and stresses, and integrate their
response to them in ways that culminate in modified phenotypes, optimized for plant …

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed plasticity to acclimate to environmental
stresses such as drought and salt stress. These plant adaptation measures involve the …