Yangwen Qian

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that melatonin acts as a potent agent to delay leaf senescence and cell death in rice and enhances abiotic stress tolerance via directly or indirectly counteracting the cellular accumulation of H2O2.

TL;DR: In rice, nitrate perception by NRT1.1B activates genetic responses that increase the utilization of not only nitrate but also phosphate, implementing the coordinated utilization of nitrogen and phosphorus.

TL;DR: CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–associated nuclease 9) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for rice research and breeding.

TL;DR: These findings highlight the critical roles of the spatial distribution of cytokinins in both stress responses and grain development in rice, and identify ARGONAUTE2 (AGO2) as a candidate target for achieving this goal in rice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that low, but not high, concentration of ABA increases lamina joint inclination of rice seedling, which requires functional BR biosynthesis and signalling.