Abscisic acid (ABA) is a key hormone that promotes dormancy during seed development on
the mother plant and after seed dispersal participates in the control of dormancy release and …

Light intensity and temperature are primary environmental factors affecting the growth and
development of plants. Changes in their intensity, range and duration can lead to …

Plants undergo a major physiological change as they transition from vegetative growth to
reproductive development. This transition is a result of responses to various endogenous …

" Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10% of
plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural …

A major quantitative trait locus (QTL) controlling response to photoperiod, Hd1, was
identified by means of a map-based cloning strategy. High-resolution map** using 1505 …

Twenty‐five years ago, Arabidopsis thaliana emerged as the model organism of choice for
research in plant biology. A consensus was reached about the need to focus on a single …

For plants, the sensing of light in the environment is as important as vision is for animals.
Fluctuations in light can be crucial to competition and survival. One way plants sense light is …

Identifying natural allelic variation that underlies quantitative trait variation remains a
fundamental problem in genetics. Most studies have employed either simple synthetic …

Soil salinity is one of the most significant abiotic stresses for plant agriculture. Apart from the
practical goal of genetically improving the salt tolerance of crop plants, salt tolerance …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …