Shoot architecture is determined by the organization and activities of apical, axillary,
intercalary, secondary, and inflorescence meristems and by the subsequent development of …

Many new questions on the regulation of shoot branching have been raised in recent years,
prompting a review and reassessment of the role of each signal involved. Sugars and their …

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-associated (Cas)
systems have been successfully used as efficient tools for genome editing in a variety of …

Strigolactones are a structurally diverse class of plant hormones that control many aspects of
shoot and root growth. Strigolactones are also exuded by plants into the rhizosphere, where …

Light drives plant growth and development, so its control is increasingly used as an
environment-friendly tool to manage horticultural crops. However, this implies a …

Strigolactones (SLs), a group of carotenoid derived terpenoid lactones, are root-to-shoot
phytohormones suppressing shoot branching by inhibiting the outgrowth of axillary buds …

Shoot branching is a highly plastic developmental process in which axillary buds are formed
in the axil of each leaf and may subsequently be activated to give branches. Three classes …

Amino acid transporters (AAT s) play indispensable roles in nutrient allocation during plant
development. In this study, we demonstrated that inhibiting expression of the rice amino acid …

Background It has been known for many decades that auxin inhibits the activation of axillary
buds, and hence shoot branching, while cytokinin has the opposite effect. However, the …

Plants continuously extend their root and shoot systems through the action of meristems at
their growing tips. By regulating which meristems are active, plants adjust their body plans to …