GmSTF accumulation mediated by DELLA protein GmRGAs contributes to coordinating light and gibberellin signaling to reduce plant height in soybean
April 2024
Plant height influences plant architecture, lodging resistance, and yield performance. It is modulated by gibberellic acid (GA) metabolism and signaling. DELLA proteins, acting as central repressors...
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OsWRKY65 enhances immunity against fungal and bacterial pathogens in rice
April 2024
Diverse bacterial and fungal pathogens attack plants, causing biotic stress and severe yield losses globally. These losses are expected to become more serious as climate change improves conditions for...
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LociScan, a tool for screening genetic marker combinations for plant variety discrimination
April 2024
To reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of plant genetic marker fingerprinting for variety discrimination, it is desirable to identify the optimal marker combinations. We describe a marker combination...
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The effect of abiotic stresses on plant C:N:P homeostasis and their mitigation by silicon
April 2024
In crop plants, various environmental stresses affect the balance of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus (C:N:P), leading to biochemical and physiological alterations and reductions in yield. Silicon (Si)...
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Optimization of inter-seasonal nitrogen allocation increases yield and resource-use efficiency in a water-limited wheat–maize cropping system in the North China Plain
Available online 26 April 2024
Winter wheat–summer maize cropping system in the North China Plain often experiences drought-induced yield reduction in the wheat season and rainwater and nitrogen (N) fertilizer losses in the maize...
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Fine mapping and characterization of stripe rust resistance gene YrAYH in near-isogenic lines derived from a cross involving wheat landrace Anyuehong
Available online 25 April 2024
Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is a devastating disease in wheat worldwide. Discovering and characterizing new resistance genes/QTL is crucial for wheat breeding programs....
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Magnesium fertilizer application increases peanut growth and pod yield under reduced nitrogen application in southern China
Available online 25 April 2024
This study investigated the effect of magnesium application on peanut growth and yield under two nitrogen (N) application rates in acidic soil in southern China. The chlorophyll content, net photosynthetic...
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The gene encoding flavonol synthase contributes to lesion mimic in wheat
Available online 21 April 2024
Lesion mimic often exhibits leaf disease-like symptoms even in the absence of pathogen infection, and is characterized by a hypersensitive-response (HR) that closely linked to plant disease resistance....
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Nanopriming with selenium doped carbon dots improved rapeseed germination and seedling salt tolerance
Available online 21 April 2024
Soil salinity is a big environmental issue affecting crop production. Although seed nanopriming has been widely used to improve seed germination and seedling growth under salinity, our knowledge about...
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Leveraging the potential of big genomic and phenotypic data for genome-wide association mapping in wheat
Available online 19 April 2024
Genome-wide association mapping studies (GWAS) based on Big Data are a potential approach to improve marker-assisted selection in plant breeding. The number of available phenotypic and genomic data...
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Candidate genes conferring ethylene-response in cultivated peanuts determined by BSA-seq and fine-mapping
Available online 18 April 2024
Ethylene plays essential roles in plant growth, development and stress responses. The ethylene signaling pathway and molecular mechanism have been studied extensively in Arabidopsis and rice but limited...
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GmAP1d regulates flowering time under long-day photoperiods in soybean
Available online 18 April 2024
Flowering time is important for adaptation of soybean (Glycine max) to different environments. Here, we conducted a genome-wide association study of flowering time using a panel of 1490 cultivated soybean...
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Map-based cloning and characterization reveal that an R2R3 MYB gene confers red glume in wheat
Available online 14 April 2024
Pigment accumulation is an important trait related to wheat domestication, but there remains a limited understanding of its molecular mechanism. The genetic control of the red glume trait by a dominant...
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Understanding mechanisms for differential salinity tissue tolerance between quinoa and spinach: Zooming on ROS-inducible ion channels
Available online 4 April 2024
Soil salinity is a worldwide issue and a major threat to global food security. Salinity tolerance is a complex mechanism that is conferred by numerous molecular, physiological, and biochemical traits....
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Rice ONAC016 promotes leaf senescence through abscisic acid signaling pathway involving OsNAP
Available online 28 March 2024
Senescence-induced NAC (senNAC) TFs play a crucial role in senescence during the final stage of leaf development. In this study, we identified a rice senNAC, ONAC016, which functions as a positive regulator...
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Hormonal and epigenetic regulation of root responses to salinity stress
Available online 13 March 2024
Salinity stress is a major environmental stress affecting crop productivity, and its negative impact on global food security is only going to increase, due to current climate trends. Salinity tolerance...
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Wetting alternating with partial drying during grain filling increases lysine biosynthesis in inferior rice grain
February 2024
Lysine content is a criterion of the nutritional quality of rice. Understanding the process of lysine biosynthesis in early-flowering superior grain (SG) and late-flowering inferior grain (IG) of rice...
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Genome-wide association study of seedling nitrogen-use efficiency-associated traits in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
February 2024
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer application is essential for crop-plant growth and development. Identifying genetic loci associated with N-use efficiency (NUE) could increase wheat yields and reduce environmental...
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Haploids can be induced in knockout mutants of OsPLA1, but not OsDMP3 or OsDMP6, in rice
February 2024
Doubled haploid (DH) technology is an important tool in crop breeding because it can significantly accelerate the breeding process. ZmPLA1/MATL/NLD and ZmDMP are two key genes controlling haploid induction...
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Trehalose: A sugar molecule involved in temperature stress management in plants
February 2024
Trehalose (Tre) is a non-reducing disaccharide found in many species, including bacteria, fungi, invertebrates, yeast, and even plants, where it acts as an osmoprotectant, energy source, or protein/membrane...
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Remote sensing of quality traits in cereal and arable production systems: A review
February 2024
Cereal is an essential source of calories and protein for the global population. Accurately predicting cereal quality before harvest is highly desirable in order to optimise management for farmers,...
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A dynamic regulation of nitrogen on floret primordia development in wheat
February 2024
Nitrogen (N) fertilization is critical for spike and floret development, which affects the number of fertile florets per spike (NFFs). However, the physiological regulation of the floret development...
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Rice gene OsUGT75A regulates seedling emergence under deep-sowing conditions
February 2024
Poor seedling emergence is a challenge for direct seeding of rice under deep-sowing field conditions. Here we reveal that UDP-glucosyltransferase OsUGT75A promotes rice seedling emergence under deep-sowing...
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ZmCYP90D1 regulates maize internode development by modulating brassinosteroid-mediated cell division and growth
February 2024
Plant height (PH) is associated with lodging resistance and planting density, which is regulated by a complicated gene network. In this study, we identified a spontaneous dwarfing mutation in maize,...
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