Continued increases in genetic gain demonstrate the success of established public and
private plant breeding programs. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, a growing body of …

Vegetables play a crucial role in global health and nutrition. Transcriptomics, a branch of
functional genomics, has emerged as a powerful tool for studying gene expression patterns …

The pangenome provides genomic variations in the cultivated gene pool for a given species.
However, as the crop's gene pool comprises many species, especially wild relatives with …

Crop enhancement and safety is prerequisite to accomplishing the requirement of
developing scenario such as population explosion, climate change, and lack of productive …

In plants, as in other species, genotypic variation in combination with environmental
variation leads to differences in the biochemical makeup of cells, measurable as molecular …

Morphological characterization is the first step in description and classification of the
germplasm. But biochemical markers like isozymes, resistance to chemicals and seed …

Increasing food demand, with the burgeoning population worldwide is reaching an alarming
condition along with depleting resources and unpredictable climatic vagaries. Thus, twenty …

The rapidly increasing global population will require more food in the future, but global food
security is facing challenges from climate change, and limited arable land and water …

Discover cutting-edge knowledge for engineering a more productive and environment-
friendly agriculture! In Plant Functional Genomics, you'll find a cross-section of state-of-the …

Several limiting factors reduce the agricultural productivity under adverse climatic conditions
(Pareek et al. 2010). In addition, feeding the burgeoning world population will also become …