The rhizobium-legume symbiosis that occurs within root nodules provides a crucial way for legumes to acquire nitrogen under nitrogen limited conditions.

Intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) is an important trait that influences crop productivity.

In a screen for root mutants of wheat we targeted long hairs as a desirable trait to improve the efficiency of phosphate uptake from soil.

Stress dependent usage of specific mRNAs is a common process in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.

Plant energy organelles such as chloroplasts are central to the evolution and function of plants; indeed it can be argued that chloroplasts are the raison d’ȇtre for plants.

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