Drought is the primary cause of agricultural loss globally, and represents a major threat to
food security. Currently, plant biotechnology stands as one of the most promising fields …

Complex biological processes such as plant growth and development are often under the
control of transcription factors that regulate the expression of large sets of genes and …

Preharvest sprouting (PHS) due to lack of seed dormancy seriously threatens crop
production worldwide. As a complex quantitative trait, breeding of crop cultivars with suitable …

The past six years have seen the rapid growth of studies of CRISPR/Cas9 in plant genome
editing, a method that enormously facilitates both basic research and practical applications …

Rice is a major dietary source of the toxic metal, cadmium (Cd). Previous studies reported
that the rice transporter, OsNRAMP1,(Natural resistance‐associated macrophage protein 1) …

Nucleic acid editing holds promise for treating genetic disease, particularly at the RNA level,
where disease-relevant sequences can be rescued to yield functional protein products. Type …

RNA has important and diverse roles in biology, but molecular tools to manipulate and
measure it are limited. For example, RNA interference,, can efficiently knockdown RNAs, but …

To ensure high crop yields in a sustainable manner, a comprehensive understanding of the
control of nutrient acquisition is required. In particular, the signalling networks controlling the …

Rice blast is one of the most destructive diseases affecting rice worldwide. The adoption of
host resistance has proven to be the most economical and effective approach to control rice …

Background To accelerate the application of the CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9) system to a variety of …