The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats associated Cas9/sgRNA
system is a novel targeted genome-editing technique derived from bacterial immune system …

Minimal tillage management of extensive crops like wheat can provide significant
environmental services but can also lead to adverse interactions between soil borne …

Wrinkled1 (WRI1) belongs to the APETALA2 transcription factor family; it is unique to plants
and is a central regulator of oil synthesis in Arabidopsis. The effects of WRI1 on …

Throughout evolution, plants have developed diverse mechanisms of defense that “prime”
their innate immune system for more robust and active induction of defense responses …

Cassava is a tropical origin plant that is sensitive to chilling stress. In order to understand the
CBF cold response pathway, a well-recognized regulatory mechanism in temperate plants …

As a key enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP), glucose-6-phosphate
dehydrogenase (G6PDH) provides nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) …

Salinity and drought often affect plant growth and crop yields. Cloning and identification of
salinity and drought stress inducible promoters is of great significance for their use in the …

Nonhost resistance is often conceptualized as a qualitative separation from host resistance.
Classification into these two states is generally facile, as they fail to fully describe the range …

In plants, Rho-related GTPases (Rops) are versatile molecular switches that regulate
various biological processes, although their exact roles are not fully understood. Herein, we …