John P. Hammond

TL;DR: Across all angiosperms, most of the variation in shoot Ca content occurred at and above the level of the order, and orders of commelinoid monocots had lower Ca contents than other monocot or eudicot orders.

TL;DR: The available literature and analyses of available transcript profiling data indeed suggest that RLKs can play an important role in optimizing plant responses to drought stress, and RLK pathways are ideal targets for nontransgenic approaches, such as synthetic molecules, providing a novel strategy to manipulate their activity.

TL;DR: Comment on assays to describe lateral root phenotypes and proposed ways to move forward regarding the description of root system architecture are proposed, also considering crops and the environment.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that increasing yields, either by the application of mineral fertilizers and/or by growing higher-yielding varieties, leads to decreased concentrations of mineral elements in tubers is examined.

TL;DR: This study attempts to identify genes controlling and driving the process of tuber initiation and growth by implementing large-scale transcriptional changes using the newly developed POCI array and will greatly enhance analysis of transcriptional control mechanisms in a wide range of potato research areas.