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ISSN: 2214-5141
CN: 10-1112/S
p-ISSN: 2095-5421

Magnesium deficiency in plants: An urgent problem

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...

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Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between potassium and magnesium in higher plants

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...

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The impact of high-temperature stress on rice: Challenges and solutions

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...

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Far-red light: A regulator of plant morphology and photosynthetic capacity

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...

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Function, transport, and regulation of amino acids: What is missing in rice?

Amino acids are essential plant compounds serving as the building blocks of proteins, the predominant forms of nitrogen (N) distribution, and signaling molecules. Plant amino acids derive from root...

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Salt tolerance in rice: Physiological responses and molecular mechanisms

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.),...

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Genome-wide analysis of soybean DnaJA-family genes and functional characterization of GmDnaJA6 responses to saline and alkaline stress

Plant DnaJA proteins act as molecular chaperones in response to environmental stressors. The purpose of this study was to characterize the function and regulatory mechanisms of DnaJA genes in soybean....

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Genetic dissection of drought resistance for trait improvement in crops

Reliance on agriculture for food security is a constant in all modern societies. Global climate change and population growth have put immense pressure on sustainable agriculture, exacerbating the effects...

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Evolution of wheat architecture, physiology, and metabolism during domestication and further cultivation: Lessons for crop improvement

In recent decades, genetic advances in yield improvement in the major cereal crops, including wheat, has stagnated or proceeded at a slower rate than is required to meet future global food demand, particularly...

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Development of herbicide resistance genes and their application in rice

Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. Weeds seriously affect the rice yield and grain quality. In recent years, there are tremendous progresses in the research and application of...

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Abiotic stress tolerance: Genetics, genomics, and breeding

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Molecular mechanisms of salinity tolerance in rice

Salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses which impose constraints to plant growth and production. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important staple food crops and a model monocot plant....

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QTL IciMapping: Integrated software for genetic linkage map construction and quantitative trait locus mapping in biparental populations

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...

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History, current status, and prospects of soybean production and research in sub-Saharan Africa

Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a non-native and non-staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with potential to be a commercial crop owing to its wide range of uses as food, feed, and industrial...

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Effects of stress-induced ABA on root architecture development: Positive and negative actions

Root architecture development, an agronomic trait that influences crop yield, is regulated by multiple plant hormones. Abscisic acid (ABA) is a stress hormone that responds to multiple stresses, including...

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High-throughput phenotyping of plant leaf morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits on multiple scales using optical sensing

Acquisition of plant phenotypic information facilitates plant breeding, sheds light on gene action, and can be applied to optimize the quality of agricultural and forestry products. Because leaves often...

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Phytohormones and their metabolic engineering for abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

Abiotic stresses including drought, salinity, heat, cold, flooding, and ultraviolet radiation causes crop losses worldwide. In recent times, preventing these crop losses and producing more food and...

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The regulatory network behind maize seed germination: Effects of temperature, water, phytohormones, and nutrients

Seed germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed. It requires suitable conditions and environmental factors. Maize is one of the most important crops worldwide. Germination influences...

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High-throughput phenotyping: Breaking through the bottleneck in future crop breeding

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,...

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Phosphorylation regulation of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium uptake systems in plants

The uptake of ammonium, nitrate, phosphorus, and potassium ions by roots is mediated by specific ion transporter or channel proteins, and protein phosphorylation regulation events occurring on these...

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Genetic and environmental control of rice tillering

Increasing tiller number is a target of high-yield rice breeding. Identification of tiller-defect mutants and their corresponding genes is helpful for clarifying the molecular mechanism of rice tillering....

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Heat-tolerant maize for rainfed hot, dry environments in the lowland tropics: From breeding to improved seed delivery

Climate change-induced heat stress combines two challenges: high day- and nighttime temperatures, and physiological water deficit due to demand-side drought caused by increase in vapor-pressure deficit....

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Salt stress responses in foxtail millet: Physiological and molecular regulation

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica L.), a member of the Paniceae family, is a temperate and tropical grass species that is widely cultivated on the Eurasian continent. It is Chinese in origin and possesses...

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Development of an Agrobacterium-mediated CRISPR/Cas9 system in pea (Pisum sativum L.)

Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is an annual cool-season legume crop. Owing to its role in sustainable agriculture as both a rotation and a cash crop, its global market is expanding and increased production...

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Recent advances in nano-enabled agriculture for improving plant performance

Nano-enabled agriculture is an emerging hot topic. To facilitate the development of nano-enabled agriculture, reviews addressing or discussing the applications, knowledge gap, future research needs,...

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