Rupesh Deshmukh

TL;DR: It is argued that much of the empirical evidence, in particular that derived from recent functional genomics, is at odds with many of the mechanistic assertions surrounding Si's role, and proposes a working model, which is proposed, the 'apoplastic obstruction hypothesis', which attempts to unify the various observations on Si's beneficial influences on plant growth and yield.

TL;DR: The potential role and mechanisms involved in the Si-mediated alleviation of metal toxicity as well as different approaches for enhancing Si-derived benefits in crop plants are discussed.

TL;DR: Comparative analysis of MIPs in plants provides opportunities to decipher gene evolution, functionality and selectivity of nutrient uptake mechanisms, and exploit the identification and functional characterization of Si transporters to optimize the benefits that plants can derive from Si absorption.

TL;DR: This review has described advances in omic tools in the view of conventional and modern approaches being used to dissect abiotic stress tolerance in soybean and addressed the significance of phenomics in the integrated approaches and recognized high-throughput multi-dimensional phenotyping as a major limiting factor for the improvement of abiotic Stress tolerance in Soybean.

TL;DR: The observed differential patterns of SSR marker distribution would be useful for studying microsatellite evolution in a monocot–dicot system and would be helpful for genomic studies in Brachypodium and related grass species, especially for the map based cloning of the candidate gene(s).