Exogenous auxin regulates the growth and development of peach fruit at the expansion stage by mediating multiple-hormone signaling.

Background: Fruit expansion stage is crucial to fruit yield and quality formation, and auxin plays a significant role by mediating multi-hormone signals during fruit expansion. However, till now, it is still unclear of the molecular regulatory network during auxin-mediated peach fruit expansion.

Results: Here, exogenous NAA application markedly increased IAA content and drastically decreased ABA content at the fruit expansion stage.

Identification of Thunb. gene family reveals that is related to heat resistance.

Temperature affects the growth and yield of yam ( Thunb.), and calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) play an important role in the plant stress response. However, there has been a lack of system analyses of yam's gene family.

Strategies for Engineering Virus Resistance in Potato.

Potato () is an important vegetable crop that plays a pivotal role in the world, especially given its potential to feed the world population and to act as the major staple food in many developing countries. Every year, significant crop loss is caused by viral diseases due to a lack of effective agrochemical treatments, since only transmission by insect vectors can be combated with the use of insecticides, and this has been an important factor hindering potato production. With the rapid development of molecular biology and plant genetic engineering technology, transgenic approaches and non-transgenic techniques (RNA interference and CRISPR-cas9) have been effectively employed to improve potato protection against devastating viruses.