Anindya Bandyopadhyay

TL;DR: Rice plants with fewer stomata are drought tolerant and more conservative in their water use, and they should perform better in the future when climate change is expected to threaten food security.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates the application of CRISPR-Cas9/Cpf1 to precisely target genomic locations and develop transgene-free homozygous heritable gene edits and confirms that the loss of function analysis of the candidate genes emerging from different systems biology based approaches, could be performed, and therefore, this system adds value in the validation of gene function studies.

TL;DR: Induction of chloroplast and mitochondrial development in rice vascular sheath cells through constitutive expression of maize GOLDEN2-LIKE genes reflects that seen in “proto-Kranz” species, and a key step toward engineering C4 rice has been achieved.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the recent discoveries regarding the clinical relevance and biological roles of miRNAs in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by SARS-CoV-2.

TL;DR: A huge diversity in leaf anatomy within wild and domesticated rice species has been portrayed in this study, predicting a two-pronged evolutionary pathway leading to the ‘sativa leaf type’ that the authors see today in domesticated species.