Inflorescence branching in the grasses controls the number of florets and hence the number
of seeds. Recent data on the underlying genetics come primarily from rice and maize …

Rice bean (Vigna umbellata) is an underexploited domesticated legume crop consumed for
dietary protein in Asia, yet little is known about the genetic diversity of this species. Here, we …

Architecture and plasticity: optimizing plant performance in dynamic environments | Plant
Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement Oxford Academic Journals …

Brassinosteroids (BRs) perform crucial functions controlling plant growth and developmental
processes, encompassing many agronomic traits in crops. Studies of BR-related genes …

One of the challenges for global food security is to reliably and sustainably improve the grain
yield of cereal crops. One solution is to modify the architecture of the grain-bearing …

A major challenge in biology is to understand how organisms have increased
developmental complexity during evolution. Inflorescences, with remarkable variation in …

Spikelets are highly specialized and short-lived branches and function as a constitutional
unit of the complex grass inflorescences. A series of genetic, genomic, and developmental …

Key message This paper sheds light on the evolution and expression patterns of MADS
genes in Setaria and Panicum virgatum. SiMADS51 and SiMADS64 maybe involved in the …

MADS-box is the important transcription factor involved in the process of nutritional and
reproductive growth of plants. To explore the information of MADS-box transcription factors …

Brassica rapa, a major oilseed crop in high-altitude areas, is well known for its indeterminate
inflorescences. However, this experiment revealed an intriguing anomaly within the plot: a …