Rice is a staple food for more than 3 billion people in more than 100 countries of the world
but ironically it is deficient in many bioavailable vitamins, minerals, essential amino-and fatty …

Increasing the sunflower seed oil content as well as improving its quality makes it
compatible for industrial demands. This is an important breeding objective of sunflower …

One of the most grievous heavy metal pollutants in the environment is cadmium (Cd), which
is not only responsible for the crop yield loss owing to its phytotoxicity, but also for the …

Abstract Key message The OsPCS2 exhibits root-and shoot-specific differential ratios of
alternatively spliced transcripts in indica rice under Cd stress, and plays role in Cd and As …

Abstract Key message The OsMATE2 upon constitutive expression in tobacco decreases
root-to-shoot As transfer coefficient and its endosperm-specific silencing in rice reduces …

Modern people generally suffer from α-linolenic acid (ALA) deficiency, since most staple
food oils are low in ALA content. Thus, the enhancement of ALA in staple oil crops is of …

Since their discovery, germin and germin-like proteins (GLPs) were found to be associated
with salt stress along with other physiological roles. Although a number of GLP family …

Essential polyunsaturated fatty acids with more than two double bonds and length of carbon
chain 18–22 must be taken in the diet to prevent diseases and imbalances caused by their …

Fatty acids from dietary lipids can impart both beneficial and harmful health effects. The
compositional balance between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids plays a decisive role …

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are well-known proteolytic enzymes in animal systems
and play roles in tissue differentiation, growth, and defence. Although a few plant MMPs …