aBIOTECH

Breeding and molecular characterization of a new salt-tolerant wheat variety

Wanqing Bai ...... Yunwei Zhang & Jiaqiang Sun

A high-throughput protocol for testing heat-stress tolerance in pollen

Chenchen Zhao ...... Lida Han & Yi Sui

The maize ZmCPK39-ZmKnox2 module regulates plant height

Mang Zhu ...... Limei Chen & Mingliang Xu

Functional retrogression of LOFSEPs in specifying floral organs in barley

Chaoqun Shen ...... Gang Li & Matthew R. Tucker

An accelerated transgene-free genome editing system using microparticle bombardment of sorghum immature embryos

Yan Zhang ...... Ian D. Godwin & Guoquan Liu

Impact of acute heat stress on mitochondrial function, ultrastructure and cardiolipin distribution in Arabidopsis

Yukang Wang, Ronghui Pan & Jianping Hu

Inference and prioritization of tissue-specific regulons in Arabidopsis and Oryza

Honggang Dai ...... Ling-Ling Chen & Junxiang Gao

Plants against cancer: towards green Taxol production through pathway discovery and metabolic engineering

Philipp Zerbe

Prime editing enables precise genome modification of a Populus hybrid

Jinpeng Zou ...... Chun Wang & Renying Zhuo

Convenient, high-efficiency multiplex genome editing in autotetraploid alfalfa using endogenous U6 promoters and visual reporters

Xiuzhi Xia ...... Hao Lin & Lifang Niu

Isochorismate synthase is required for phylloquinone, but not salicylic acid biosynthesis in rice

Zengqian Wang ...... Jin-Long Qiu & Jie Wu

MHZ3: a key regulator of ethylene signaling in rice

Arif Ali Khattak ...... Muhammad Afzal & Xiaolin Wang

Emerging strategies to improve heat stress tolerance in crops

Jiawei Xiong ...... Shigui Li & Peng Qin

Thiophanate-methyl and its major metabolite carbendazim weaken rhizobacteria-mediated defense responses in cucumbers against Fusarium wilt

Kai Cui ...... Yongquan Zheng & Xiaohu Wu

Effects of cultivating biotech maize GG2 and glyphosate treatment on the rhizospheric microbial community structure

Yinxiao Wang ...... Mingyuan Yin & Zhihong Lang

Characterization and functional analysis of gerbera plant defensin (PDF) genes reveal the role of GhPDF2.4 in defense against the root rot pathogen Phytophthora cryptogea

Chunzhen Cheng, Huan Wu & Yongyan Zhang

A simple, highly efficient Agrobacterium tumefaciens ‐mediated moss transformation system with broad applications

Ping Zhou ...... Xiaoshuang Li & Daoyuan Zhang

Impact of database choice and confidence score on the performance of taxonomic classification using Kraken2

Yunlong Liu ...... Tao Ma & Yan Tu

Manipulating brassinosteroid signaling pathway to genetically improve horticultural plants

Xiaopeng Li ...... Hongyong Shi & Jia Li

A 6.49-Mb inversion associated with the purple embryo spot trait in potato

Pei Wang ...... Hui Du & Chunzhi Zhang