Founders' Reviews
Heterosis refers to the phenomenon where the first filial offspring ( F 1 ) from genetically diverse parents displays advantages in growth rate, yield, and adaptability compared with its parents. The exploitation of heterosis in rice breeding has greatly increased the productivity, making a ...
For successful pollination to occur in crucifers, contact with a stigma epidermal cell is a precondition for hydration, activation of a pollen grain, and establishment of a polarized growth pattern within the grain. Additionally, the resulting pollen tube gains access to internal pistil tissues by ...
The past 50 years has been the greatest era of plant science discovery, and most of the discoveries have emerged from or been facilitated by our knowledge of plant chromosomes. At last we have descriptive and mechanistic outlines of the information in chromosomes that programs plant life. We had ...
Decades of canopy modeling and recent advances in photosynthesis research reveal strategies for improving canopy light use efficiency in crops.
By storing and releasing a multitude of compounds, vacuoles play a multifaceted role in the plant development and response to environment Al changes.
Auxin triggers diverse responses in plants, and this is reflected in quantitative and qualitative diversity in the auxin signaling machinery.
Calcium and protons exert control over the formation and activity of the cytoskeleton, usually by modulating an associated motor protein or one that affects the structural organization of the polymer.
Accessions of Arabidopsis vary in a number of traits ( Fig. 1 ; Table I ). The most general way to identify genes is by crossing two accessions, which may or may not have a different phenotype, but produce nonuniform F2 progeny. In the F2 or later generations, specific phenotypes are then ...
Ascorbate and glutathione are part of a highly complex and intricate plant antioxidative system ( Mittler et al., 2004 ). They function alongside catalases in high-capacity redox-homeostatic H 2 O 2 -processing pathways. While the ascorbate-glutathione pathway has long been considered to function ...
