ZmCER1, a putative ECERIFERUM 1 protein in maize, functions in cuticular wax biosynthesis and bulliform cell development
June 2024
The cuticular wax, acting as the ultimate defense barrier, is essential for the normal morphogenesis of plant organs. Despite this importance, the connection between wax composition and leaf development...
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Rice ONAC016 promotes leaf senescence through abscisic acid signaling pathway involving OsNAP
June 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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Identification of new cotton fiber-quality QTL by multiple genomic analyses and development of markers for genomic breeding
June 2024
Cotton fiber is one of the main raw materials for the textile industry. In recent years, many cotton fiber quality QTL have been identified, but few were applied in breeding. In this study, a genome...
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Estimating wheat spike-leaf composite indicator (SLI) dynamics by coupling spectral indices and machine learning
June 2024
The contribution of spike photosynthesis to grain yield (GY) has been overlooked in the accurate spectral prediction of yield. Thus, it’s essential to construct and estimate a yield-related phenotypic...
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Wild soybean (Glycine soja) transcription factor GsWRKY40 plays positive roles in plant salt tolerance
June 2024
Wild soybean (Glycine soja), a relative of cultivated soybean, shows high adaptability to adverse environmental conditions. We identified and characterized a wild soybean transcription factor gene,...
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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
June 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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Effect of rice cultivar on greenhouse-gas emissions from rice–fish co-culture
June 2024
In aquaculture, co-culturing rice with fish may mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions. In this study, co-culture of four rice cultivars in a laboratory-scale rice–fish system reduced CH4 and N2O emissions...
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Grain-filling strategies of wheat of contrasting grain sizes under various planting patterns and irrigation levels
June 2024
In a study comparing grain filling and yield in a large- and a small-grain-size wheat cultivar under two planting patterns and two irrigation regimes, plastic-covered ridge and furrow planting with...
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A novel semi-dominant allele of the transmembrane NAC transcription factor ZmNTL2 reduces the size of multiple maize organs
June 2024
Maize plant architecture influences planting density and, in turn, grain yield. Most of the plant architecture-related traits can be described as organ size. We describe a miniature maize mutant, Tiny...
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Towards cultivar-oriented gene discovery for better crops
June 2024
The continued expansion of the world population, increasingly inconsistent climate and shrinking agricultural resources present major challenges to crop breeding. Fortunately, the increasing ability...
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A rice exocyst subunit gene SEC3A is required for anther dehiscence
June 2024
Anther dehiscence controls optimal interaction between pollen and stigma, thereby determining the successful sexual reproduction. The regulators or mechanisms of this process remain elusive. Here, two...
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Gene expression profiles in early leaf of rice (Oryza sativa) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
June 2024
Plant anatomy is patterned early during leaf development which suggests studying the spatial–temporal transcriptomes of primordia will help identify critical regulative and functional genes. We successfully...
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Natural variation in maize gene ZmSBR1 confers seedling resistance to Fusarium verticillioides
June 2024
Maize seedling blight caused by Fusarium verticillioides is a widely occurring maize disease, but the genetics and mechanisms of resistance are not well understood. In this study, GWAS performed by...
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Magnesium fertilizer application increases peanut growth and pod yield under reduced nitrogen application in southern China
June 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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Leveraging the potential of big genomic and phenotypic data for genome-wide association mapping in wheat
June 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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The UDP-glycosyltransferase OsUGT706D2 positively regulates cold and submergence stress tolerance in rice
June 2024
In a genome-wide association study, we identified a rice UDP-glycosyltransferase gene, OsUGT706D2, whose transcription was activated in response to cold and submergence stress and to exogenous abscisic...
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Improving dryland maize productivity and water efficiency with heterotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria via nitrification and cytokinin activity
June 2024
A two-year field experiment conducted under dryland conditions in semi-humid and drought-prone regions of China aimed to assess the effect of ammonia-oxidizing bacterial on maize water use efficiency...
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Plant aquaporins: Their roles beyond water transport
June 2024
Compared to other organisms, plants have evolved a greater number of aquaporins with diverse substrates and functions to adapt to ever-changing environmental and internal stimuli for growth and development....
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Fine mapping of two recessive genes TaFLA1 and TaSPL8 controlling flag leaf angle in bread wheat
Available online 23 June 2024
Flag leaf angle is one of the key target traits in high yield wheat breeding. A smaller flag leaf angle reduces shading and enables plants to grow at a higher density, which increases yield. Here we...
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OsFK1 encodes C-14 sterol reductase, which is involved in sterol biosynthesis and affects premature aging of leaves in rice
Available online 22 June 2024
The enzyme C-14 sterol reductase is involved in biosynthesis of brassinosteroids (BR) and sterols, as well as plant development. OsFK1, a member of the sterol biosynthesis pathway located in the endoplasmic...
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Optimized silicon fertilization regime weakens cadmium translocation and increases its biotransformation in rice tissues
Available online 22 June 2024
In acidic paddy fields of South China, rice (Oryza sativa L.) faces the dual challenges of cadmium (Cd) toxicity and silicon (Si) deficiency. Although previous studies have highlighted the functions...
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Vital contribution of brassinosteroids to hypoxia-stimulated coleoptile elongation in submerged rice
Available online 16 June 2024
The rapid elongation of rice (Oryza sativa) coleoptile is pivotal for the plant plumule to evade hypoxia stress induced by submergence, a condition often arising from overirrigation, ponding, rainstorms,...
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A 9.5-kb deletion in the 1st intron of OsMADS51 enhances temperature sensitivity in rice
Available online 13 June 2024
Temperature is an important environmental factor affecting heading date of rice. Despite its importance, genes responsible for temperature-sensitive heading in rice have remained elusive. Our previous...
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Characterization of a 4.1 Mb inversion harboring the stripe rust resistance gene YR86 on wheat chromosome 2AL
Available online 13 June 2024
Wheat cultivar Zhongmai 895 was earlier found to carry YR86 in an 11.6 Mb recombination-suppressed region on chromosome 2AL when crossed with Yangmai 16. To fine-map the YR86 locus, we developed two...
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