Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Sustainable agricultural production is endangered by several ecological factors, such as
drought, extreme temperatures, excessive salts, parasitic ailments, and insect pest …

Passion fruit is a tropical liana of the Passiflora family that is commonly consumed
throughout the world due to its attractive aroma and flavor. However, very limited information …

Crop plants should be resilient to climatic factors in order to feed ever-increasing
populations. Plants have developed stress-responsive mechanisms by changing their …

Climate change has significantly altered the biodiversity of crop pests and pathogens,
posing a major challenge to sustainable crop production. At the same time, with the …

Metabolite accumulation and related gene expression were analyzed to elucidate the
passion fruit quality and color formation mechanisms during ripening in three stages of …

The majority of released rye cultivars are susceptible to leaf rust because of a low level of
resistance in the predominant hybrid rye-breeding gene pools Petkus and Carsten. To …

Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a selection method for improving agriculturally essential
traits in wheat. MAS allows efficient screening of difficult-to-phenotype traits, introgression of …

Leaf rust (LR) and stripe rust (YR) are important diseases in wheat producing areas
worldwide and cause severe yield losses under favorable environmental conditions when …

Background Wheat stripe rust (caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. Tritici), is a major disease
that causes huge yield damage. New pathogen races appeared in the last few years and …