The size of seeds affects not only evolutionary fitness but also grain yield of crops.
Understanding the mechanisms controlling seed size has become an important research …

As sessile organisms, plants must overcome various stresses. Accordingly, they have
evolved several plant-specific growth and developmental processes. These plant processes …

WRKY transcription factors are one of the largest families of transcriptional regulators found
exclusively in plants. They have diverse biological functions in plant disease resistance …

Highlights•Seed size is coordinately determined by maternal and zygotic tissues.•Several
signaling pathways of seed size control have been identified in Arabidopsis and rice.•The …

Photoperiodic plants perceive changes in day length as seasonal cues to orchestrate their
vegetative and reproductive growth. Although it is known that the floral transition of …

In plants, sensing the levels of external and internal nutrients is essential for reprogramming
the transcriptome and adapting to the fluctuating environment. Phosphate (Pi) is a key plant …

The cytokinins have been implicated in many facets of plant growth and development
including cell division and differentiation, shoot and root growth, apical dominance …

Members of the Arabidopsis thaliana PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER1 (PHT1) family are key
players in acquisition of Pi from the rhizosphere, and their regulation is indispensable for the …

The WRKY transcription factor family has been associated with a variety of plant biological
processes, such as biotic and abiotic stress responses. In this study, 13 wheat TaWRKY …

Seed size is a pivotal agronomic trait that links plant sexual reproduction and subsequent
seedling establishment, and is affected by the timing of endosperm cellularization following …