Rice is a global food grain crop for more than one-third of the human population and a
source for food and nutritional security. Rice production is subjected to various stresses; …

As one of the important concepts in conventional quantitative genetics and breeding, genetic
gain can be defined as the amount of increase in performance that is achieved annually …

Summary The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is a continuously updated, online
database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana that …

The genomic integrity of every organism is constantly challenged by endogenous and
exogenous DNA-damaging factors. Mutagenic agents cause reduced stability of plant …

The high selection pressure applied in rice breeding since its domestication thousands of
years ago has caused a narrowing in its genetic variability. Obtaining new rice cultivars …

Strigolactones are a group of plant compounds of diverse but related chemical structures.
They have similar bioactivity across a broad range of plant species, act to optimize plant …

Celiac disease has become one of the best-understood HLA-linked disorders. Although it
shares many immunologic features with inflammatory bowel disease, celiac disease is …

The indeterminate nature of plant growth and development depends on the stem cell system
found in meristems. The Arabidopsis thaliana vascular meristem includes procambium and …

Shoot branching patterns depend on a key developmental decision: whether axillary buds
grow out to give a branch or whether they remain dormant in the axils of leaves. This …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) and other endogenous small RNAs act as sequence-specific
regulators of the genome, transcriptome, and proteome in eukaryotes. The interrogation of …