Drought stress is a serious agronomic problem resulting in significant yield losses globally.
Breeding cultivars with drought tolerance is an important strategy that can be used to …

Changing patterns of weather and climate are limiting breeders' ability to conduct trials in the
same environments in which their released varieties will be grown 7-10 years later …

Millets are a group of annual, panicoid grasses with C4 mode of photosynthesis. With the
ease of their Arabidopsis-like lifecycle, tremendous stress-tolerance capacity, and huge …

One of the most explored crop plants in genomics studies is maize (Zea mays L.). It has
served as a model for developing and incorporating biotechnology and genomics …

The domestication of plants involves their adaptation to different climatic conditions,
including changes in photoperiod and temperature. Many genetic loci of domestication are …

Maize flowering time is an important agronomic trait, which has been associated with
variations in the genome size and heterochromatic knobs content. We integrated three steps …

Over the next three decades rising population and changing dietary preferences are
expected to increase food demand by 25–75\%. At the same time, climate is also changing …

Forward genetics discovery of the molecular basis of induced mutants has fundamentally
contributed to our understanding of basic biological processes such as metabolism, cell …

Maize is a globally valuable commodity and one of the most extensively studied genetic
model organisms. However, we know surprisingly little about the extent and potential utility …

Maize leads the world's cereals after wheat and rice in terms of cultivated area, because of
its economic importance for the production of both food purposes and raw materials for …