Climate change poses a serious threat to crop productivity. The rise in CO2 levels, air temperature, soil salinity and variability in precipitation are the key factors that contribute to yield loss. Sorghum stands in the ...

Rice MADS29 has recently been reported to cause programmed cell death of maternal tissues, the nucellus, and the nucellar projection during early stages of seed development. However, analyses involving OsMADS29 protein ...

Oilseed mustard, Brassica juncea, exhibits high levels of genetic variability for salinity tolerance. To obtain the global view of transcriptome and investigate the molecular basis of salinity tolerance in a salt-tolerant ...

To identify switchgrass homologs of rice genes, known/predicted to control biomass and stress response-related traits, we screened 96,000 clones from two switchgrass bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries. Full-length ...

Protein kinases catalyze the transfer of a phosphate moiety from a phosphate donor to the substrate molecule, thus playing critical roles in cell signaling and metabolism. Although plant genomes contain more than 1000 genes ...

Shrinking arable land due to soil salinization and, depleting fresh water resources pose serious worldwide constraints to crop productivity. A vision of using plant feedstock for biofuel production can only be realized if ...

Teosinte Branched1/Cycloidea/Proliferating cell factors (TCP) genes are key mediators of genetic innovations underlying morphological novelties, stress adaptation, and evolution of immune response in plants. They have a ...

Sweet sorghum is a promising target for biofuel production. It is a C4 crop with low input requirements and accumulates high levels of sugars in its stalks. However, large-scale planting on marginal lands would require ...

Sorghum is a highly efficient C4 crop, with enormous potential as a biofuel feedstock. Fermentable sugars that accumulate in sorghum stalks, high biomass, drought tolerance and adaptability to diverse climates are some of ...

Transcription factors (TFs) are an important class of regulatory molecules. Despite their importance, only a small number of genes encoding TFs have been characterized in Oryza sativa (rice), often because gene duplication ...