Cultivated rice, Oryza sativa L., represents the world’s most important staple food crop, feeding
more than half of the human population. Despite this essential role in world agriculture, …

Grafting is an ancient agricultural practice that joins the root system (rootstock) of one plant
to the shoot (scion) of another. It is most commonly employed in woody perennial crops to …

Background WRKY transcription factors are one of the largest families of transcriptional
regulators in plants. WRKY genes are not only found to play significant roles in biotic and abiotic …

Grape is one of the most important fruit crops worldwide. The suitable geographical locations
and productivity of grapes are largely limited by temperature. Vitis amurensis is a wild …

Genotyping by sequencing (GBS) provides opportunities to generate high-resolution genetic
maps at a low genotyping cost, but for highly heterozygous species, missing data and …

Concerns regarding the commercial release of genetically engineered (GE) crops include
naturalization, introgression to sexually compatible relatives and the transfer of beneficial traits …

Across plants, leaves exhibit profound diversity in shape. As a single leaf expands, its shape
is in constant flux. Plants may also produce leaves with different shapes at successive …

Hermaphroditic (perfect) flowers were a key trait in grapevine domestication, enabling a drastic
increase in yields due to the efficiency of self-pollination in the domesticated grapevine (…

The shapes of leaves are dynamic, changing over evolutionary time between species,
within a single plant producing different shaped leaves at successive nodes, during the …

Cultivated grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is one of the most important agricultural fruit crops in the
world and grapevines are often grown in environments very different than the Mediterranean …