Beetroot is recognized as health promoting food due to presence of essential components
such as vitamins, minerals, phenolics, carotenoids, nitrate, ascorbic acids and betalains that …

A plant develops the dynamic phenotypes from the interaction of the plant with the
environment. Understanding these processes that span plant's lifetime in a permanently …

We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild
accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape …

Aegilops tauschii, the diploid wild progenitor of the D subgenome of bread wheat, is a
reservoir of genetic diversity for improving bread wheat performance and environmental …

Cereal grasses of the Triticeae tribe have been the major food source in temperate regions
since the dawn of agriculture. Their large genomes are characterized by a high content of …

This hopeful manifesto draws on Marxist theory to imagine a utopian future beyond work,
scarcity, and capitalism—one where automation replaces manual labor. In the twenty-first …

Background Haemoglobinopathies constitute the commonest recessive monogenic
disorders worldwide, and the treatment of affected individuals presents a substantial global …

Fermented and alcoholic beverages played a pivotal role in feastings and social events in
past agricultural and urban societies across the globe, but the origins of the sophisticated …

Plant breeders require access to new genetic diversity to satisfy the demands of a growing
human population for more food that can be produced in a variable or changing climate and …

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …