Parasitic plants have a unique heterotrophic lifestyle based on the extraction of water and
nutrients from host plants. Some parasitic plant species, particularly those of the family …

Background Precision plant genome engineering holds much promise for targeted
improvement of crop traits via unprecedented single-base level control over the genetic …

Rice is one of the main pillars of food security in India. Its improvement for higher yield in
sustainable agriculture system is also vital to provide energy and nutritional needs of …

Background Rice tiller number is one of the most important factors that determine grain yield,
while nitrogen is essential for the crop growth and development, especially for tiller …

Carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases (CCDs) catalyzes the cleavage of various carotenoids
into smaller apocarotenoids which are essential for plant growth and development and …

Water stress is one of the most severe constraints to crop productivity. Plants display a
variety of physiological and biochemical responses both at the cellular and whole organism …

Strigolactones (SLs) represent a class of plant hormones that are involved in inhibiting shoot
branching and in promoting abiotic stress responses. There is evidence that the biosynthetic …

The Indian initiative, in creating mutant resources for the functional genomics in rice, has
been instrumental in the development of 87,000 ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS)-induced …

The carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase (CCD) gene family in plants comprises two
subfamilies: CCD and 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED). Genes in the NCED …

Avoidance of disadvantageous genetic correlations among growth duration and yield traits
is critical in developing crop varieties that efficiently use light and energy resources and …