Through a variety of mechanisms, including increasing the amount of readily available
mineral nutrients, regulating phytohormone levels, and biocontrol of phytopathogens, plant …

Crop yields must increase to meet the demands of a growing world population. Soil
salinization is increasing due to the impacts of climate change, reducing the area of arable …

Climate change is driving extreme changes to the environment, posing substantial threats to
global food security and bioenergy. Given the direct role of plant roots in mediating plant …

The shoot and root system architectures are fundamental for crop productivity. During the
history of artificial selection of domestication and post-domestication breeding, the …

Root phenotypes play profoundly important roles supporting plant growth and their adaptive
responses to myriad environmental stresses. For example, architecture‐scale traits such as …

Paddy fields located around estuaries suffer from seawater intrusion, and how and to what
extent salinity levels influence Cd accumulation in rice grains is still unclear. Pot …

The current climate crisis has global impacts and will affect the physiology of plants across
every continent. Ensuring resilience of our agricultural and natural ecosystems to the …

Roots are the main organ for water uptake and the earliest part of a plant's response to
drought, making them of great importance to our understanding of the root system's …

Mexican native maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) is adapted to a wide range of climatic and
edaphic conditions. Here, we focus specifically on the potential role of root anatomical …

Improving net leaf photosynthetic rate (A n) by molecular breeding is an important research
challenge in improving rice productivity. For the effective use of a locus or gene that …