Studies on Nitrogen Metabolism in Crop Plants : I. Quantitative extraction and estimation of nucleic acids in crop plants

Biofortification of Crop Plants

Organic acids of crop plants in aluminium detoxification

Phytotoxicity of aluminium is one of the most serious problems in limiting plant growth in acidic soils. A number of plant species exhibit inheritable aluminium tolerance by the secretion of organic acids which is highly specific to aluminium stress and localized to the root apices. Organic acids have been considered to play an important role in the detoxification of aluminium, both externally ...

Salt resistant crop plants.

Soil salinity is a major constraint to agriculture. To improve salinity tolerance of crops, various traits can be incorporated, including ion exclusion, osmotic tolerance and tissue tolerance. We review the roles of a range of genes involved in salt tolerance traits. Different tissues and cells are adapted for specific and often diverse function, so it is important to express the genes in speci...

Epigenetics and Heterosis in Crop Plants

Heterosis refers to improved or altered performance observed in F1 hybrid organisms when compared to their parents. Heterosis has revolutionized agriculture by improving key agronomic traits in crop plants. However, even after decades of research in this area a unifying molecular theory of heterosis remains somewhat elusive. For many years it has been observed that the dominant, overdominant an...

Ethylene synthesis and sensitivity in crop plants.

Closed and semi-closed plant growth chambers have long been used in studies of plant and crop physiology. These studies include the measurement of photosynthesis and transpiration via photosynthetic gas exchange. Unfortunately, other gaseous products of plant metabolism can accumulate in these chambers and cause artifacts in the measurements. The most important of these gaseous byproducts is th...