Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is among the most important food crops that provide a staple food for
nearly half of the world's population. Rice crops are prone to various types of stresses, both …

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) being one of the top most cash crop is reckoned as main
pillar of textile industry. Cotton cultivation has experienced an outstanding escalation story …

Background The heterologous expression of isopentenyl transferase (IPT) under the
transcriptional control of the senescence-associated receptor-like kinase (SARK) promoter …

Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world. A crop loss of up to 43% has been
reported due to blister blight disease of tea caused by a fungus, Exobasidium vexans. Thus …

Background Cotton yield has been badly affected by different insects and weed competition.
In Past Application of multiple chemicals is required to manage insects and weed control …

Actin dynamics is pivotal in controlling cotton fiber elongation and the onset of secondary
wall biosynthesis. We report that overexpression of GhACTIN1 under fiber fiber-specific …

Abstract Tea (Camellia sinensis [L.] O. Kuntze) plant, one of the most important plantation
crops in the world, is infected by a fungus called Exobasidium vexans leading to dreaded …

This is the first report on Agrobacterium rhizogenes-mediated transformation of Withania
somnifera for expression of a foreign gene in hairy roots. We transformed leaf and shoot tip …

Salicylic acid (SA) is generally considered to be a critical signal transduction factor in plant
defenses against pathogens. It could be converted to methyl salicylate (MeSA) for remote …

Abstract During the Green Revolution in the 1960s, breeding dwarf cultivars turned out to be
a landmark, leading to a significant increase in the global production of wheat and rice. The …