Sucrose is transported from sources (mature leaves) to sinks (importing tissues such as
roots, stems, fruits, and seeds) through the phloem tissues in veins. In many herbaceous …

Fruit sweetness is determined by the amount and composition of sugars in the edible flesh.
The accumulation of sugar is a highly orchestrated process that requires coordination of …

Machine learning is increasingly applied to improve the efficiency and accuracy of molecular
dynamics (MD) simulations. Although the growth of distributed computer clusters has …

The growth of yield outputs is dwindling after the first green revolution, which cannot meet
the demand for the projected population increase by the mid-century, especially with the …

Sugar loading of developing seeds comprises a cohort of transport events that contribute to
reproductive success and seed yield. Understanding these events is most advanced for …

Drought is one of the most serious abiotic stresses to land plants. Plants sense and respond
to drought stress to survive under water deficiency. Scientists have studied how plants sense …

Both sugar and the hormone gibberellin (GA) are essential for anther‐enclosed pollen
development and thus for plant productivity in flowering plants. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis …

Leaf senescence is a combined response of plant cells stimulated by internal and external
signals. Sugars acting as signaling molecules or energy metabolites can influence the …

Key message OsSWEET1b is a hexose transporter protein, which localized in cell
membranes and interacting with itself to form homodimer and knockout of OsSWEET1b …

Transporters are targeted by endogenous metabolites and exogenous molecules to reach
cellular destinations, but it is generally not understood how different substrate classes …