Recognizing the enormous potential of DNA markers in plant breeding, many agricultural
research centers and plant breeding institutes have adopted the capacity for marker …

Rapidly rising population and climate changes are two critical issues that require immediate
action to achieve sustainable development goals. The rising population is posing increased …

Although thought of as a minor crop, peppers are a major world commodity due to their great
versatility. They are used not only as vegetables in their own right but also as flavourings in …

Methodologies for mapping of genes underlying quantitative traits have advanced
considerably but have not been accompanied by a parallel development of new population …

Plants may also be resistant to arthropods via the tolerance category of resistance, as
defined in Chapter 1, by possessing the ability to withstand or recover from damage caused …

Genetic engineering and biotechnology hold great potential for plant breeding as it promises
to expedite the time taken to produce crop varieties with desirable characters. With the use …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

The cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, is the second most consumed vegetable
worldwide and a well‐studied crop species in terms of genetics, genomics, and breeding. It …

There is considerable variability in salt tolerance amongst members of the Triticeae, with the
tribe even containing a number of halophytes. This is a review of what is known of the …

Abstract Three major genes (Pi 1, Pi z-5 and Pi ta) for blast resistance on chromosomes 11,
6 and 12, respectively, were fine-mapped and closely linked RFLP markers identified. New …