The present day's ongoing global warming and climate change adversely affect plants
through imposing environmental (abiotic) stresses and disease pressure. The major abiotic …

Crop production is the primary goal of agricultural activities, which is always taken into
consideration. However, global agricultural systems are coming under increasing pressure …

Recent research in plant epigenetics has increased our understanding of how epigenetic
variability can contribute to adaptive phenotypic plasticity in natural populations. Studies …

Organisms adapt to different environments by selection of the most suitable phenotypes from
the standing genetic variation or by phenotypic plasticity, the ability of single genotypes to …

Plant productivity is being seriously compromised by climate-change-induced temperature
extremities. Agriculture and food safety are threatened due to global warming, and in many …

The majority of polyploids can withstand many stresses better than their monoploid
counterparts; however, there is no proven mechanism that can fully explain the level of …

Many threatened plants have low genetic diversity, which may reduce their capacity for
genetically based adaptation, increasing their extinction risk. Non‐genetic variation (eg …

Epigenetics refers to dynamic chemical modifications to the genome that can perpetuate
gene activity without changes in the DNA sequence. Epigenetic mechanisms play important …

Tea plants are an economically important crop and conducting research on tea breeding
contributes to enhancing the yield and quality of tea leaves as well as breeding traits that …

Salinity stress is a major environmental stress affecting crop productivity, and its negative
impact on global food security is only going to increase, due to current climate trends …