Auxin, a pivotal plant hormone, orchestrates a wide range of developmental processes including cell division, elongation, organ formation and responses to environmental stimuli. Its signalling ...

Phytohormones are chemical messengers that regulate the growth of plants and their response to the environment. In land plants, auxin is an important and well-studied phytohormone that affects various ...

• Seed longevity, the maintenance of viability during dry storage, is a crucial factor to preserve plant genetic resources and seed vigor. Inference of a temporal gene-regulatory network of seed ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 69, No. 2, Special Issue: Recent Advances in Auxin Biology (2018), pp. 189-200 (12 pages) The phytohormone auxin is a pivotal signaling molecule that functions ...

In a study published in Cell Reports, Prof. SONG Xianjun's group from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered a gene network underlying the regulation of seed size.