Rapid development of durable bacterial blight resistance in African rice through marker-assisted pyramiding of four resistance genes - Rice

Bacterial blight of rice causes substantial crop losses in Asia and Africa. The recent introduction of Asian strains into African countries has led to two independent outbreaks detected in 2019, causi...

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C4 photosynthetic pathway fluxes in transgenic rice plants - Nature Plants

Crop plants such as rice employ the C3 photosynthesis pathway; however, the C4 pathway has a generally greater yield and water use efficiency. Rice transgenic for several C4 enzymes shows metabolic fl...

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A cytochrome P450 gene, <i>GmSUR2</i>^<i>a</i>, confers submergence tolerance and improves yield in soybean by modulating auxin homeostasis

The key cytochrome P450 gene GmSUR2a enables soybeans to withstand destructive submergence stress. By lowering the level of the plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid, this gene improves soybean survival...

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Genomic dissection of divergent selection reveals a roadmap for reciprocal improvement of Chinese and American soybean

Genomic dissection of 2,377 soybean accessions identified 261 trait-associated loci with distinct beneficial alleles in Chinese and American germplasms, enabled development of the Soybean Targeted Im...

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A century of soybean breeding increased photosynthetic capacity but not NPQ relaxation

Abstract. Accelerating photoprotective regulation to improve carbon assimilation is a promising strategy to increase crop productivity. Although rapid non-

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Transcriptional signatures associated with female receptivity and longevity in genetically male-sterile wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Scientific Reports - Transcriptional signatures associated with female receptivity and longevity in genetically male-sterile wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

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Out of the blue: family‐wide loss of anthocyanin biosynthesis in Cucurbitaceae

Anthocyanins are nearly universal plant pigments, making their evolutionary loss unexpected. Phylogenomics across Cucurbitaceae reveals the consistent absence of key structural and regulatory genes i...

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OsOSCA2.4 regulates post-Golgi trafficking of storage proteins by modulating Ca2+ homeostasis in rice endosperm

Abstract. Seed storage proteins (SSPs), which accumulate specifically during seed development, constitute a major source of plant-derived protein in the hu

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Transcriptional Regulatory Crosstalk Between Heat Stress and Nitrogen–Sulfur Nutrition in Plants

Abstract. Plant responses to high temperature depend on the nutritional state in which the stress occurs. Nitrogen and sulfur shape this state through phot

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Gapless pangenome analyses reveal fast Brassica rapa subspeciation

Brassica rapa (Br) encompasses many morphotypes and subspecies, so it is a good model with which to investigate plant diversification and subspeciation. Here, we resequenced the genomes of 1720 Br acc...

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WLG coordinates multi-stress tolerance in rice by regulating DST-dependent H2O2 homeostasis and stomatal aperture - Nature Communications

Abiotic stresses reduce rice growth. Here, the authors show that E3 ubiquitin ligase WLG enhances tolerance to drought, salt, and heat via a molecular mechanism that increases guard cell hydrogen pero...

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The OsNAC3-OsITPK4-OsMT2b module regulates rice seed germination through the reactive oxygen species pathway

The OsNAC3-OsITPK4-OsMT2b module promotes seed germination by preventing reactive oxygen overaccumulation, providing potential targets for breeding direct

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Intrinsically disordered regions restrain genomic targeting of RNA and histone demethylases in mammals and plants - Nature Genetics

Intrinsically disordered regions impose regulatory restraints on gene-activating demethylases, limiting chromatin engagement and preserving genomic stability. This function is a key determinant of the...

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Genome editing in rice: toward climate-resilient, nutrient-rich yields

Rice is the main source of calories for more than half of the world’s population, so yields must increase to feed an estimated 5 billion people by 2050, despite the effects of resource depletion and c...

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Instant generation of four‐parent‐derived autotetraploid rice through an <fc><fi>in vitro</fi></fc> fertilisation system

Conventional breeding approaches aimed at crop improvement have been based on hybridisation through crosses between two parental lines or autopolyploidisation through genome duplication in a single p...

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Ubiquitin signalling redefines nutrient trade-offs in crops

Changing nutrient availability is associated with growth trade-offs in crops. Recent studies in rice and maize reveal that such constraints can be uncoupled by modifying ubiquitin-dependent proteostatic systems that integrate nutrient and stress signalling pathways. This challenges the inevitability of trade-offs and highlights new strategies for breeding nutrient-efficient, stress-resilient crops.

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Translating Flood-Tolerance Biology into Breeding: A 5D Framework for Next-Generation Rice Varieties

Abstract. Flooding is among the most devastating abiotic stresses limiting rice productivity. Although SUB1A introgression conferred submergence tolerance

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Translating Flood-Tolerance Biology into Breeding: A 5D Framework for Next-Generation Rice Varieties

Abstract. Flooding is among the most devastating abiotic stresses limiting rice productivity. Although SUB1A introgression conferred submergence tolerance

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Have we entered a ‘post-model’ era in plant biology?

Models such as arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) have underpinned genomic and physiological research in plant science. Advances in genome sequencing, pangenomics, and genome editing have prompted cla...

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