Drought is the primary cause of agricultural loss globally, and represents a major threat to
food security. Currently, plant biotechnology stands as one of the most promising fields …

Advances in DNA sequencing technology have sparked a genomics revolution, driving
breakthroughs in plant genetics and crop breeding. Recently, the focus has shifted from …

'Domestication syndrome'(DS) denotes differences between domesticated plants and their
wild progenitors. Crop plants are dynamic entities; hence, not all parameters distinguishing …

Models are extensively used to describe the coevolution of plants and microbial attackers.
Such models distinguish between different classes of plant immune responses, based on …

Progress in improving abiotic stress tolerance of crop plants using classic breeding and
selection approaches has been slow. This has generally been blamed on the lack of reliable …

Key message The importance and potential of the multi-purpose crop sorghum in global
food security have not yet been fully exploited, and the integration of the state-of-art …

Spinach is a nutritious leafy vegetable belonging to the family Chenopodiaceae. Here we
report a high-quality chromosome-scale reference genome assembly of spinach and …

Natural variations in cisregulatory regions often affect crop phenotypes by altering gene
expression. However, the mechanism of how promoter mutations affect gene expression …

Legumes represent the second most important family of crop plants after grasses,
accounting for approximately 27% of the world's crop production. Past domestication …

Most conventional and modern crop-improvement methods exploit natural or artificially
induced genetic variations and require laborious characterization of the progenies of …