Inducible overexpression of Ideal Plant Architecture1 improves both yield and disease resistance in rice

M Liu, Z Shi, X Zhang, M Wang, L Zhang, K Zheng… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Breeding crops with resistance is an efficient way to control diseases. However, increased
resistance often has a fitness penalty. Thus, simultaneously increasing disease resistance …

A wheat dominant dwarfing line with Rht12, which reduces stem cell length and affects gibberellic acid synthesis, is a 5AL terminal deletion line

L Sun, W Yang, Y Li, Q Shan, X Ye, D Wang… - The Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dwarfing and semi‐dwarfing are important agronomic traits that have great potential for the
improvement of wheat yields. Rht12, a dominant gibberellic acid (GA)‐responsive dwarfing …

The PIF1-miR408-PLANTACYANIN repression cascade regulates light-dependent seed germination

A Jiang, Z Guo, J Pan, Y Yang, Y Zhuang, D Zuo… - The Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Light-dependent seed germination is a vital process for many seed plants. A decisive event
in light-induced germination is degradation of the central repressor PHYTOCHROME …

CYP72A enzymes catalyse 13-hydrolyzation of gibberellins

J He, Q Chen, P **n, J Yuan, Y Ma, X Wang, M Xu… - Nature plants, 2019 - nature.com
Bioactive gibberellins (GAs or diterpenes) are essential hormones in land plants that control
many aspects of plant growth and development. In flowering plants, 13-OH GAs (having low …

Chromatin-based regulation of plant root development

DH Chen, Y Huang, C Jiang, JP Si - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Plant is endowed with sessile habit and nutrient acquisition mainly through the root organ,
which also provides an excellent model to study stem cell fate and asymmetric division due …

New alleles for chlorophyll content and stay-green traits revealed by a genome wide association study in rice (Oryza sativa)

Y Zhao, C Qiang, X Wang, Y Chen, J Deng, C Jiang… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Higher chlorophyll content (CC) and strong stay-green (SG) traits are conducive for
improvement of photosynthetic efficiency in plants. Exploration of natural elite alleles for CC …