Plant hormones are signalling compounds that regulate crucial aspects of growth,
development and environmental stress responses. Abiotic stresses, such as drought …

The ability of a seed to germinate and establish a plant at the right time of year is of vital
importance from an ecological and economical point of view. Due to the fragility of these …

Root architecture is a major determinant of plant fitness and is under constant modification in
response to favorable and unfavorable environmental stimuli. Beyond impacts on the …

Although many plant cell types are capable of producing hormones, and plant hormones
can in most cases act in the same cells in which they are produced, they also act as …

Synthetic biology has been developing rapidly in the last decade and is attracting increasing
attention from many plant biologists. The production of high-value plant-specific secondary …

Epigenetic changes are the heritable modifications in genes without altering DNA
sequences. The epigenetic changes occur in the plant genomes to regulate gene …

Activation of immunity by exogenous signals or mutations leading to autoimmunity has long
been associated with decreased plant growth, known as the growth-defense tradeoff …

The fascination produced by the possibility of engineering plants with augmented
capabilities has accompanied plant biotechnology since its origins. This prospect has …

Tools for sequence-specific DNA binding have opened the door to new approaches in
investigating fundamental questions in biology and crop development. While there are …

Embryogenesis in seed plants is the process during which a single cell develops into a
mature multicellular embryo that encloses all the modules and primary patterns necessary to …