Facing the challenges of the world's food sources posed by a growing global population and
a warming climate will require improvements in plant breeding and technology. Enhancing …

CRISPR/Cas9 is a valuable tool and has been extensively employed to perform gene
editing in plants. However, CRISPR/Cas9 has not been successfully used in spinach, an …

White lupin (Lupinus albus L.) is an important crop with high phosphorus (P) use efficiency;
however, technologies for its functional genomic and molecular analyses are limited. Cluster …

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 …

Penicillium digitatum and Penicillium expansum are plant pathogenic fungi that cause the
green and blue mold diseases, respectively, leading to serious postharvest economic losses …

Plants and microbes are co-evolved and interact with each other in nature. Plant-associated
microbes, often referred to as plant microbiota, are an integral part of plant life. Depending …

On July 20 this year, 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk
who laid the foundations of genetics, is celebrated. His findings provided the stepping stone …

Genome editing has emerged as a technology with a potential to revolutionize plant
breeding. In this study, we report on generating, in less than ten months, Tomelo, a non …

Since the first CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing of poplar in 2015, an increasing
number of tree species are being genome-edited. Although the availability of genome …

With time, the global population and demand for food are increasing proportionally. For
example, the projected demand for food and animal feed cereals is going to reach around 3 …