Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

Catalase (CAT) is an extensively studied if somewhat enigmatic enzyme that is at the heart
of eukaryotic antioxidant systems with a canonical role in peroxisomal function. The CAT …

Walking through a garden or a crop field, you may notice that plants damaged by pests
(insects or pathogens) look smaller than the same kind of plants nearby that are not …

Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) receptor-mediated immunity includes rapid
production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and transcriptional reprogramming, which is …

The discovery and application of genome editing introduced a new era of plant breeding by
giving researchers efficient tools for the precise engineering of crop genomes. Here we …

Recurrent heat stress and pathogen invasion seriously threaten crop production, and abiotic
stress often antagonizes biotic stress response against pathogens. However, the molecular …

Rice production is severely affected by the bacterial pathogen, Xanthomonas oryzae pv.
oryzae (Xoo), which causes bacterial leaf blight (BLB) disease. Nano-enabled strategies …

To adapt to changing environments, plants have evolved elaborate regulatory mechanisms
balancing their growth with stress responses. It is currently unclear whether and how the …

Drought drastically restricts wheat production, so to dissect allelic variations of drought
tolerant genes without imposing trade-offs between tolerance and yield is essential to cope …

Molecular manipulation of susceptibility (S) genes that are antipodes to resistance (R) genes
has been adopted as an alternative strategy for controlling crop diseases. Here, we show …