Prakash Lakshmanan

TL;DR: The recent findings have made it increasingly apparent that such crosstalk will also explain the extreme pleiotropic responses elicited by various phytohormones and it would not be presumptuous to expect that in the coming years this paradigm will take a central role in explaining developmental regulation.

TL;DR: It is anticipated that the rapid advancements in molecular biology and emerging biotechnology innovations would play a significant role in the future sugarcane crop improvement programs and offer many new opportunities to develop it as a new-generation industrial crop.

TL;DR: It is concluded that discrimination against nitrate and a low capacity to store nitrate in shoots prevents commercial sugarcane varieties from taking advantage of the high nitrate concentrations in fertilized soils in the first three months of the growing season, leaving nitrate vulnerable to loss.

TL;DR: Using a transverse thin cell layer culture system, some of the developmental and physiological constraints that limit high-frequency regeneration in sugarcane leaf tissue are identified and auxin, when added to the culture medium, reduced this spatial developmental constraint.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the physiological and molecular studies on water deficit stress in sugarcane, with the aim to help formulate more effective research strategies for advancing knowledge on genes and mechanisms underpinning plant response to water stress.