Seed and fruit set are established during and soon after fertilization and determine seed and fruit number, their final size and, hence, yield potential. These processes are highly sensitive to biotic and abiotic stresses, which often lead to seed and fruit abortion. Here, we review the regulation of assimilate partitioning, including the potential roles of recently identified sucrose efflux tr...

Positively charged, oligolamellar liposomes were able to enter the pea pollen grains during the germination process in vitro. Large, identifiable liposomes could be found at a low frequency in living, germinated pollen grains and pollen tubes. Protoplasmic streaming inside the germinated pollen apparatus, where it appears as moving strands, exerts violent, formative effects on the liposomes. Up...

The study of fruit development in zucchini via gene expression has proven to be applicable breeding programs. Phenotypic and transcriptomic studies set parthenocarpy have been previously developed some relevant genes reported. From these studies, three genotypes (MUCU-16, Whitaker, Cavili) six (CpAUX22, CpIAA4, CpIAMT-1, CpPIN5, CpCYCD6-1, CpEXPLB1) were selected. was analyzed each genotype und...

The HAWAIIAN SKIRT (HWS) gene has been described in Arabidopsis, rice, tomato and poplar where it seems to perform distinct functions with relatively little overlap. In tomato, alteration of the function confers facultative parthenocarpy, thought be a consequence changes microRNA metabolism. rice mutant, improvement panicle architecture is associated an increase grain yield. Knowing that hws fr...

Plant genome editing tools as Zinc-Finger Nucleases (ZFNs), Trans Activator-Like Effector (TALENs), and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) associated with Cas proteins are offering new possibilities for crop improvement insights functional genomics. In this review, we discuss (i) the findings in gene technologies, (ii) a comparison between them, (iii) their appli...