Environmental pollution, global warming and climate change exacerbate the impact of biotic
and abiotic stresses on plant growth and yield. Plants have evolved sophisticated defence …

Recent achievements in plant microRNA (miRNA), a large class of small and non-coding
RNAs, are very exciting. A wide array of techniques involving forward genetic, molecular …

In recent years, RNA interference (RNAi) machinery has widely been explored by plant
biologists for its potential applications in disease management, plant development, and …

In the long evolutionary history, plant has evolved elaborate regulatory network to control
functional gene expression for surviving and thriving, such as transcription factor‐regulated …

Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary is one of the main pathogens in the agricultural
sector. The most affected are the Solanaceae species, with the potato (Solanum tuberosum) …

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs that have recently emerged as
important regulators of gene expression, mainly through cleavage and/or translation …

Plant natural products (PNPs) are the main sources of drugs, food additives, and new
biofuels and have become a hotspot in synthetic biology. In the past two decades, the …

Recent investigations documented that plants can uptake and process externally applied
double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs), hairpin RNAs (hpRNAs), and small interfering RNAs …

Climate change and the increasing demand for food by the growing population present
enormous challenges for food security. With a population that will likely grow from 7.5 billion …

Over the last two decades, significant advances have been made using genetic engineering
technology to modify genes from various exotic origins and introduce them into plants to …