Springer Plant Sciences

What role do brassinosteroids (BR) play in plant responses to abiotic stresses? And what are the potential mechanisms of BR-induced abiotic stress tolerance? Golam Jalal Ahammed et al. discuss these aspects in a review published in the Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. Part of a Special Issue on Phytohormones of isoprenoid origin and their role in plants.

In this article, Arriaga & colleagues examined the antioxidant response of lettuce plants to four wavelengths of LED visible light. Their work is published in Acta Physiologiae Plantarum.

A computer model of the temperature-dependent regulation of photosynthetic processes - electron transport and ATP synthesis - in chloroplast is presented in this article from Tikhonov & Vershubskii. Published in Photosynthesis Research.

The effect of methyl jasmonate on in-vitro pollen germination and tube elongaton of Pinus nigra are reported in this article published in Protoplasma. Work from Aslhan Çetinba-Genç & Filiz Vardar.

In this research note, Fusarium solani was identified as the pathogen causing basal stem and root rot of Crossandra infundibuliformis in Hainan, China. Reported by Qiu et al. in Australasian Plant Pathology. Australasian Plant Pathology Society