Plants have an extraordinary diversity of transcription machineries, including five nuclear
DNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Four of these enzymes are dedicated to the production …

Protein phosphorylation modification is crucial for signaling transduction in plant
development and environmental adaptation. By precisely phosphorylating crucial …

The ability to control gene expression and generate quantitative phenotypic changes is
essential for breeding new and desired traits into crops. Here we report an efficient, facile …

Artemisia annua is the major natural source of artemisinin, an anti-malarial medicine
commonly used worldwide. Here, we present chromosome-level haploid maps for two A …

Background Alternative splicing (AS) is a widespread regulatory mechanism in multicellular
organisms. Numerous transcriptomic and single-gene studies in plants have investigated AS …

Targeted engineering of plant gene expression holds great promise for ensuring food
security and for producing biopharmaceuticals in plants. However, this engineering requires …

Seed priming is a pre‐germination treatment administered through various chemical,
physical and biological agents, which induce mild stress during the early phases of …

The rhizosphere is the central hotspot of water and nutrient uptake by plants,
rhizodeposition, microbial activities, and plant-soil-microbial interactions. The plasticity of …

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

Potassium (K+) is an essential cation in all organisms that influences crop production and
ecosystem stability. Although most soils are rich in K minerals, relatively little K+ is present in …