The size of seeds affects not only evolutionary fitness but also grain yield of crops.
Understanding the mechanisms controlling seed size has become an important research …

The phytohormone cytokinin plays diverse roles in plant development, influencing many
agriculturally important processes, including growth, nutrient responses and the response to …

Chloroplasts are best known for their role in photosynthesis, but they also allow nitrogen and
sulphur assimilation, amino acid, fatty acid, nucleotide and hormone synthesis. How …

Key message Cytokinins are a class of phytohormone that participate in the regulation of the
plant growth, development, and stress response. In this review, the potential regulating …

Plants often live in adverse environmental conditions and are exposed to various stresses,
such as heat, cold, heavy metals, salt, radiation, poor lighting, nutrient deficiency, drought, or …

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is the most important natural fiber crop in the world.
The overall genetic diversity among cultivated species of cotton and the genetic changes …

The phytohormones auxin and cytokinin interact to regulate many plant growth and
developmental processes. Elements involved in the biosynthesis, inactivation, transport …

Highlights•Seed size is coordinately determined by maternal and zygotic tissues.•Several
signaling pathways of seed size control have been identified in Arabidopsis and rice.•The …

Cytokinins are N 6 substituted adenine derivatives that affect many aspects of plant growth
and development, including cell division, shoot initiation and growth, leaf senescence …

Despite long-standing observations on diverse cytokinin actions, the discovery path to
cytokinin signaling mechanisms was tortuous. Unyielding to conventional genetic screens …