Common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) is a legume used for animal feed because of its high protein
content and great capacity for nitrogen fixation, making this crop relevant in sustainable …

Global climate change is one of the major constraints limiting plant growth, production, and
sustainability worldwide. Moreover, breeding efforts in the past years have focused on …

The Asian Vigna in the subgenus Ceratotropis, with several recognized species distributed
across Asia, constitute an economically important group of cultivated and wild species for …

Legumes represent the second most important family of crop plants after grasses,
accounting for approximately 27% of the world's crop production. Past domestication …

The ever-rising population of the twenty-first century together with the prevailing challenges,
such as deteriorating quality of arable land and water, has placed a big challenge for plant …

Two-component system (TCS) genes regulate a wide range of biological activities in
prokaryotes and eukaryotes, including plants. TCS plays an important role in cellular …

Water is the key resource limiting world agricultural production. Although an impressive
number of research reports have been published on plant drought tolerance enhancement …

Experience shows that biotic stresses occur with different levels of intensity in all agricultural
areas around the world. The occurrence of insects, weeds, and diseases caused by fungus …

Underutilized pulses and their wild relatives are typically stress tolerant and their seeds are
packed with protein, fibers, minerals, vitamins, and phytochemicals. The consumption of …

In the current context of food security, increasing plant protein production in a sustainable
manner represents one of the major challenges of agronomic research, which could be …