Integrated multi-omics reveal mechanisms of awn variation in forage oats (Avena sativa)
Available online 26 September 2026
Awns contribute to seed dispersal, grain yield, and drought tolerance, but their mechanisms in oats remain unclear. Using an awned mutant generated from cultivar Everleaf by sodium azide mutagenesis,...
UAV-based high-throughput phenotyping of plant nitrogen concentration across soybean genotypes and its utility in screening high-yield varieties
Available online 26 September 2026
The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential for identifying high-yield soybean varieties by estimating plant nitrogen concentration (PNC) with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing....
The value of training population optimization strategies for genomic prediction in the era of large integrated data
Available online 26 September 2026
This study aimed to identify a training population optimization (TPO) strategy that maximizes genomic prediction ability using an independent, representative elite test set and a large integrated training...
Integrating reduced nitrogen fertilization with a nitrification inhibitor under drip fertigation increases maize nitrogen use efficiency while reducing carbon footprint
Available online 26 September 2026
This study aimed to determine whether reduced N application combined with the nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) could maintain maize yield, increase nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), and reduce...
OsbZIP65 enhances cold tolerance in rice by regulating ROS scavenging and carbohydrate metabolism
Available online 24 September 2026
Cold stress limits rice productivity, yet how transcriptional regulation coordinates antioxidant defense and carbohydrate adjustment remains poorly understood. Here, we identified Group S bZIP transcription...
Plants get sunburned too: A protein-based shade net protects chloroplasts against sunlight
Available online 18 September 2026
SiNAC2 accelerates leaf senescence and modulates yield traits in Setaria italica by activating SiJAR1-mediated jasmonate signaling
Available online 17 September 2026
The objective of this study was to identify the regulatory mechanisms underlying leaf senescence in foxtail millet (Setaria italica). We identified and functionally characterized a NAC transcription...
OsNAC079 confers salt tolerance in rice by activating the sodium transporter OsHKT1;5
Available online 17 September 2026
The objective of this study was to identify the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms governing the expression of OsHKT1;5, a sodium transporter determining sodium homeostasis and salt tolerance in...
Optimizing N rates enhanced crop yields and mitigated N2O emissions in a peanut–wheat cropping system in the North China Plain
Available online 17 September 2026
Optimal nitrogen (N) inputs are critical for reconciling crop yields with greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in agroecosystems. The peanut-wheat cropping system has been shown to reduce synthetic N inputs...
Common vetch intercropping increases high-density oat productivity through improved canopy light–nitrogen matching and optimized photosynthetic nitrogen partitioning
Available online 16 September 2026
The objective of this study was to identify the mechanism by which oat–common vetch intercropping enhances yield performance under high planting density. In a field experiment comparing oat–common vetch...
Wheat breeding for climate resilience: Insights from the 4th International Wheat Congress
Available online 16 September 2026
Resistance breeding in elite hybrid rice by EBE-editing for bacterial blight
Available online 16 September 2026
Bacterial blight (BB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is devastative to hybrid rice. Engineering effector-binding elements (EBEs) in susceptibility gene promoters confers resistance;...
Soybean productivity and profitability under optimized planting geometry and system of crop intensification in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
Available online 16 September 2026
Optimizing planting configuration and management is critical for improving soybean productivity under the System of Crop Intensification (SCI), yet information on suitable planting arrangements and...
Application of coupling coordination evaluation for light–water utilization system in summer maize
Available online 15 September 2026
The objective of this study was to determine how soil water and light utilization coordinate to influence summer maize yield and water productivity. In a four-year field experiment with four cultivars,...
Phosphate starvation signaling restricts leaf angle in rice by PHR2-mediated repression of brassinosteroid biosynthesis
Available online 15 September 2026
Inorganic phosphate (Pi) deficiency induces decreased leaf angle in rice as an adaptive strategy, but the underlying molecular mechanism remains unclear. Here, we demonstrate that Pi-starvation-induced...
ZmARR2 promotes salt tolerance in maize through a redox-related pathway
Available online 13 September 2026
Soil salinization severely limits crop productivity by disrupting ionic and redox homeostasis. Cytokinin signaling mediated by type-B Arabidopsis response regulators (B-ARRs) has been implicated in...
Going (pea)nuts: peanut genomics from variation maps, T2T genomes to breeding
Available online 12 September 2026
Self-adaptation crop classification for open-set scenarios on Google Earth Engine
Available online 10 September 2026
Open-set scenarios pose an inevitable challenge for the large-scale application of crop-classification models. When supervised classifiers are directly applied to such scenarios, unknown crops in the...
ZmNAC032 and ZmNTL1 synergistically promote salt tolerance in maize by affecting K+/Na+ homeostasis and trehalose accumulation
Available online 1 September 2026
The NAC (NAM, ATAF, and CUC) transcription factors include nuclear members and membrane members like NTL (NAC with Transmembrane motif 1-like). The objective of this study was to identify the mechanism...
The BES1–KCS1 regulatory module suppresses callus formation through coordinated crosstalk between BR signaling and VLCFA biosynthesis
Available online 1 September 2026
The induction of pluripotent callus from somatic cells is a key step in plant regeneration, with broad implications for developmental biology, biotechnology, and crop genetic improvement. While the...
Engineered intraspecific hybrid lethality enables rapid haploid isolation and cytoplasm conversion in tobacco
August 2026
Haploid plants can improve the efficiency of cultivar development by shortening breeding cycles and increasing genetic gain per unit of time. The ability to produce androgenic haploids from seed can...
FLASH: A high-efficiency soybean-native protoplast platform for real-time protein localization and interaction studies
August 2026
Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.), is one of the world’s most important oilseed and economic crops, yet its cell-biology-oriented gene-function studies remain hampered by low transformation efficiency...
One-step strategy for developing wheat haploid inducer lines with efficient markers for haploid identification
August 2026
Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is one of the most important staple crops globally. Doubled haploid technology enables rapid development of pure lines and has been extended from maize to several other...
An efficient machine-learning framework for genomic selection of optimal crosses in soybean germplasm population
August 2026
Genomic selection (GS) has provided a comprehensive framework for efficient breeding by linking phenotypes to genome-wide markers. However, research on GS has predominantly focused on improving genotype-to-phenotype...
Pathogen-inducible gene LRD6-6E315Q breaks the trade-off between disease resistance and yield in rice
August 2026
Although some lesion mimic mutants (LMMs) confer broad-spectrum disease resistance, their constitutive autoimmunity often penalizes plant growth and yield, limiting their application in crop breeding....
