Abiotic stresses are major limiting factors that pose severe threats to agricultural production.
Conventional breeding has significantly improved crop productivity in the last century, but …

More than a half-century has passed since it was discovered that phytohormone cytokinin
(CK) is essential to drive cytokinesis and proliferation in plant tissue culture. Thereafter …

The hormones auxin and cytokinin regulate numerous aspects of plant development and
often act as an antagonistic hormone pair. One of the more striking examples of the …

It is vital to ramp up crop production dramatically by 2050 due to the increasing global
population and demand for food. However, with the climate change projections showing that …

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 …

Cytokinins (CTKs) are a major phytohormone group that are significant in the promotion of
cellular division, growth, and divergence. Isopentenyl transferase (IPT) regulates a rate …

As a staple food crop, rice has gained mainstream attention in genome engineering for its
genetic improvement. Genome engineering technologies such as transgenic and genome …

Cytokinins are diversified signaling molecules present in all plant tissues, higher
concentrations being found in continuous growth areas such as meristematic regions, roots …

Genetic manipulation is a strong tool for modifying crops to produce a considerably wider
range of valuable products which gratifies human health benefits and industrial needs …

In recent years, the effect of climate change on agriculture is perceived with irregular rainfall
trends, temperature patterns and disease/pest outbreaks. Productivity of many crop species …