Being rooted in place, plants are faced with the challenge of responding to unfavourable
local conditions. One such condition, heat stress, contributes massively to crop losses …

The study of plant biology in the 21st century is, and will continue to be, vastly different from
that in the 20th century. One driver for this has been the use of genomics methods to reveal …

Carbohydrate import into seeds directly determines seed size and must have been
increased through domestication. However, evidence of the domestication of sugar …

Comprehensive and systematic transcriptome profiling provides valuable insight into
biological and developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle of a plant. We …

Plant interactions with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have long attracted interest for their
potential to promote more efficient use of mineral resources in agriculture. Their use …

Maize (Zea mays) is an excellent cereal model for research on seed development because
of its relatively large size for both embryo and endosperm. Despite the importance of seed in …

Abstract Background Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts that are 200 bp or
longer, do not encode proteins, and potentially play important roles in eukaryotic gene …

Deep learning methodologies have revolutionized prediction in many fields and show
potential to do the same in molecular biology and genetics. However, applying these …

RNA sequencing can simultaneously identify exonic polymorphisms and quantitate gene
expression. Here we report RNA sequencing of developing maize kernels from 368 inbred …

Maternal-to-filial nutrition transfer is central to grain development and yield. nitrate
transporter 1/peptide transporter (NRT1-PTR)-type transporters typically transport nitrate …