Epigenetics confers a survival advantage in plants to endure harsh weather by inducing bud dormancy. Environmental factors or intrinsic signals trigger the transition between growth and dormancy.

Recently, a research team led by Professor WU Lifang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully elucidated the stage-specific roles of plant ...

Axillary buds are located at the base of each leaf. Initially dormant, each can grow into a branch. To study how branching is regulated by local signalling within each bud and by systemic signalling ...

In a study published in Science, the research groups led by HAN Bin and WANG Jiawei from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences (CEMPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have ...

Scientists have shown that two previously separate modes of plant branching regulation can be connected, revealing the most complete picture yet of how plants control their architecture. Subscribe to ...