The present day's ongoing global warming and climate change adversely affect plants
through imposing environmental (abiotic) stresses and disease pressure. The major abiotic …

Strigolactone is the collective name for compounds containing a butenolide as a part of their
structure, first discovered as compounds that induce seed germination of root parasitic …

Homosporous lycophytes (Lycopodiaceae) are a deeply diverged lineage in the plant tree of
life, having split from heterosporous lycophytes (Selaginella and Isoetes)~ 400 Mya …

Summary The phytohormones, jasmonates (JAs), mediate many plant developmental
processes and their responses to important environmental stresses, such as herbivore …

The evolution of roots allowed vascular plants to adapt to land environments. Fossil
evidence indicates that roots evolved independently in euphyllophytes (ferns and seed …

The contrasting genome size between homosporous and heterosporous plants is
fascinating. Different from the heterosporous seed plants and mainly homosporous ferns, the …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) are widely used as plant growth regulators in modern agriculture.
Understanding how BRs regulate nutrient signaling is crucial for reducing fertilizer usage …

Land plant sexual reproduction involves the transition of cells from somatic to reproductive
identity during post-embryonic development. In Arabidopsis, the leucine-rich repeat receptor …

Background Sterile-fertile heteroblasty is a common phenomenon observed in ferns, where
the leaf shape of a fern sporophyll, responsible for sporangium production, differs from that …

Significant changes have occurred in plant cell wall composition during evolution and
diversification of tracheophytes. As the sister lineage to seed plants, knowledge on the cell …