Crop cultivars in commercial use have often been selected because they show high levels of
resistance to pathogens. However, widespread cultivation of these crops for many years in …

Modern agriculture has encountered several challenges in achieving constant yield stability
especially due to disease outbreaks and lack of long-term disease-resistant crop cultivars. In …

Genetic variation in crop plants is an indispensable factor for sustainable agriculture. For
creating genetic variation, plant biotechnology relied on various random mutagenesis …

Application of disease-resistant varieties is the most effective and environmentally friendly
way to control crop diseases. However, there is often a trade-off between disease resistance …

Climate change-induced environmental stresses, pests, and diseases significantly affect
crop growth and productivity, posing severe threats to food security. Given the increasing …

Diseases severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food security.
Genetic improvement of plant disease resistance is essential for sustainable agriculture …

Climate change poses a serious threat to global agricultural activity and food production.
Plant genome editing technologies have been widely used to develop crop varieties with …

One of the greatest challenges for agricultural science in the 21st century is to improve yield
stability through the progressive development of superior cultivars. The increasing numbers …

Plants are challenged incessantly by several biotic and abiotic stresses during their entire
growth period. As with other biotic stress factors, insect pests have also posed serious …

The susceptibility of crop plants towards abiotic stresses is highly threatening to assure
global food security as it results in almost 50% annual yield loss. To address this issue …