Impaired carbon metabolism and reproductive development constrain crop productivity
during heat stress. Reproductive development is energy intensive, and its requirement for …

Forests play a key role in global ecosystem conservation and environmental maintenance.
Forestry, which includes plant active components, germplasm resources and vegetation …

Wood is the main feedstock source for pulp and paper industry. However, chemical
composition variations from multispecies and multisource feedstock heavily affect the …

The oak wilt disease caused by the invasive fungal pathogen Bretziella fagacearum is one
of the greatest threats to oak-dominated forests across the Eastern United States. Accurate …

Leaf age structures the phenology and development of plants, as well as the evolution of
leaf traits over life histories. However, a general method for efficiently estimating leaf age …

With a growing human population facing multiple global change drivers (ie climate change
and land management change), the future of food security is of major importance …

Advancements in phenotyping techniques capable of rapidly and nondestructively detecting
impacts of drought on crops are necessary to meet the 21st-century challenge of food …

Wood performs several functions to ensure tree survival and carbon allocation to a finite
stem volume leads to trade‐offs among cell types. It is not known to what extent these trade …

Greater availability of leaf dark respiration (Rdark) data could facilitate breeding efforts to
raise crop yield and improve global carbon cycle modelling. However, the availability of …

Lignocellulose content is an important factor affecting the conversion efficiency of biomass
energy plants. In this study, 179 Miscanthus accessions in China were used to determine the …