Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between potassium and magnesium in higher plants
April 2021
Magnesium (Mg) affects various critical physiological and biochemical processes in higher plants, and its deficiency impedes plant growth and development. Although potassium (K)-induced Mg deficiency...
RNAi technologies for insect control in crop protection
August 2025
RNA interference (RNAi) has been used for agricultural insect pest control based on silencing of targeted insect genes. However, the effectiveness of RNAi and its applications in insect pest control...
Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem
April 2016
Although magnesium (Mg) is one of the most important nutrients, involved in many enzyme activities and the structural stabilization of tissues, its importance as a macronutrient ion has been overlooked...
Salt tolerance in rice: Physiological responses and molecular mechanisms
February 2022
Crop yield loss due to soil salinization is an increasing threat to agriculture worldwide. Salt stress drastically affects the growth, development, and grain productivity of rice (Oryza sativa L.),...
The rice auxin response factor OsARF12 coordinates ROS scavenging, photosynthetic protection, and Na+/K+ homeostasis under salt stress
December 2025
Salt stress severely limits rice growth and productivity. Auxin signaling has a well-documented role in development, but its role in rice salt stress responses is far from clear. In this study, we identified...
The impact of high-temperature stress on rice: Challenges and solutions
October 2021
Heat stress (HS) caused by rapidly warming climate has become a serious threat to global food security. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple food crop for over half of the world’s population, and its...
JAZ proteins: Key regulators of plant growth and stress response
December 2024
The jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) family of proteins serves as co-receptors and transcriptional repressors of jasmonic acid (JA) in plants. Their functional diversity and multiple roles make them important...
Advances in the study of auxin early response genes: Aux/IAA, GH3, and SAUR
August 2024
Auxin plays a crucial role in all aspects of plant growth and development. Auxin can induce the rapid and efficient expression of some genes, which are named auxin early response genes (AERGs), mainly...
Far-red light: A regulator of plant morphology and photosynthetic capacity
April 2022
Plant photosynthetic capacity directly determines crop yield. Light quality regulates photosynthetic capacity. This review discusses plant responses to far-red light from the phenotypic to the molecular...
PlantGaussian: Exploring 3D Gaussian splatting for cross-time, cross-scene, and realistic 3D plant visualization and beyond
April 2025
Observing plants across time and diverse scenes is critical in uncovering plant growth patterns. Classic methods often struggle to observe or measure plants against complex backgrounds and at different...
QTL IciMapping: Integrated software for genetic linkage map construction and quantitative trait locus mapping in biparental populations
June 2015
QTL IciMapping is freely available public software capable of building high-density linkage maps and mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) in biparental populations. Eight functionalities are integrated...
Identification of a major QTL and its candidate genes controlling stem strength in soybean via QTL mapping and GWAS
December 2025
Stem strength is an important indicator of lodging that significantly influences yield and quality in soybean. Therefore, understanding the regulatory mechanisms underlying stem strength is critical...
High-throughput phenotyping: Breaking through the bottleneck in future crop breeding
June 2021
With the rapid development of genetic analysis techniques and crop population size, phenotyping has become the bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Breaking through this bottleneck will require phenomics,...
Harnessing metabolomics for enhanced crop drought tolerance
April 2025
Global crop productivity faces a significant threat from climate change-induced drought stress (DS), which is vital for sustainable agriculture and global food security. Uncovering DS adaptation and...
The transcription factor GmBIM1 negatively regulates plant height in soybean (Glycine max L.)
Available online 8 November 2025
Plant height is a key agronomic trait in soybean (Glycine max L.), as it directly influences the number of nodes on the main stem, pod number per plant, yield, and lodging resistance. Identifying genes...
Combining ultralow-altitude drone phenotyping with deep learning analytics to assess resistance and disease dynamics of Fusarium head blight in wheat
October 2025
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a serious fungal disease that affect small grain cereals, causing significant wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield and quality losses globally. Breeding disease-resistant...
Interplay of light and nitrogen for plant growth and development
June 2025
Light and nitrogen (N) are two critically environmental factors essential for plant survival, as they constitute the fundamental molecular framework of plant cells and significantly influence patterns...
Enemies at peace: Recent progress in Agrobacterium-mediated cereal transformation
April 2024
Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated plant transformation is a versatile tool for plant genetic engineering following its discovery nearly half a century ago. Numerous modifications were made in its application...
Combining optimized irrigation with reduced N fertilization increases wheat N use efficiency by increasing soil N cycling and plant N uptake
December 2025
With the aim of maximizing nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of wheat in the North China Plain by optimizing irrigation and nitrogen application, a field experiment with a split-plot design was conducted....
Physiology of medicinal and aromatic plants under drought stress
April 2024
Drought poses a significant challenge, restricting the productivity of medicinal and aromatic plants. The strain induced by drought can impede vital processes like respiration and photosynthesis, affecting...
TaJAZ1-mediated transcriptional regulation of starch biosynthesis synergistically enhances resistant starch content and yield in wheat
December 2025
Jasmonate ZIM-domain (JAZ) proteins are key repressors of the jasmonate signaling pathway and are involved in plant stress responses. However, their roles in starch biosynthesis in cereal crops remain...
Origin, evolution, and molecular function of DELLA proteins in plants
April 2022
Gibberellic acid (GA), a ubiquitous phytohormone, has various effects on regulators of plant growth and development. GAs promote growth by overcoming growth restraint mediated by DELLA proteins (DELLAs)....
Planting density affects yield of indica-japonica hybrid rice by regulating population and photosynthetic characteristics
Available online 8 November 2025
To increase the yield of indica-japonica hybrid rice, it is crucial to explore their photosynthetic and population characteristics at different yield levels and quantify their response to varying planting...
Genes controlling grain chalkiness in rice
August 2024
With rising living standards, there is an increasing demand for high-quality rice. Rice quality is mainly defined by milling quality, appearance quality, cooking and eating quality, and nutrition quality....