Extensive efforts have been devoted to increase NUE by the cultivated plants, and when plant breeding is framed to reach this proposal, several components are reported to be involved to NUE, as a ...

Plants, as sessile organisms, have developed molecular mechanisms to adapt their development to changes in daylength, or photoperiod. One of the first plant features that comes to mind as affected by ...

In addition, the plant cover should be easy to maintain under field conditions (Berti and Cunningham, 2000; Marques et al., 2009). Many plant species, which meet the above requirements, have been ...