Plant breeders have always faced a brutal trade-off: the traits that matter most for food security, like drought tolerance or ...

Crops increasingly need to thrive in a broader range of conditions, including drought, salinity, and heat. Traditional plant ...

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans serves as a preeminent model for understanding the intricate relationship between genetic variation and phenotype. Recent advances have harnessed high-throughput ...

• The ability to tolerate neighboring plants (i.e. degree of competitive response) is a key determinant of plant success in high-competition environments. Plant genotypes adjust their functional trait ...