Polypoid species play significant roles in agriculture and food production. Many crop
species are polyploid, such as potato, wheat, strawberry, and sugarcane. Genotyping has …

Covering: up to 2018 Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been known for well over three
decades as crucial mediators of the innate immune response in animals and plants, where …

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is considered to be the most important forage crop on a global
scale. Nevertheless, soil salinity significantly decreases productivity, seriously threatening …

Background Alfalfa, the “queen of forage”, is the most extensively cultivated forage legume
in the world. The development and yield of alfalfa are seriously limited by abiotic stress …

In legume nodules, rhizobia differentiate into nitrogen-fixing forms called bacteroids, which
are enclosed by a plant membrane in an organelle-like structure called the symbiosome. In …

Twelve alfalfa genotypes that were selected for biomass under salinity, differences in Na
and Cl concentrations in shoots and K/Na ratio were evaluated in this long-term salinity …

Root nodules formed by plants of the nitrogen-fixing clade (NFC) are symbiotic organs that
function in the maintenance and metabolic integration of large populations of nitrogen-fixing …

Background The heavy metal cadmium (Cd) accumulates in the environment due to
anthropogenic influences. It is unessential and harmful to all life forms. The plant cell wall …

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is a globally important forage crop. It also serves as a vegetable
and medicinal herb because of its excellent nutritional quality and significant economic …

NAC (NAM, ATAF1/2, and CUC2) transcription factors compose one of the largest families of
plant-specific transcription factors; they are widely involved in plant growth and development …