Soybean (Glycine max), as an economically important food and oilseedcrop, is a major
source of plant proteins and oils. Although considerable progress has been made in …

There is an ongoing societal debate about plant breeding systems and their impact on
stakeholders in food systems. Hybrid breeding and hybrid seed have become controversial …

Heavy metal stress can lead to many adverse effects that inhibit cellular processes at
various levels of metabolism, causing a decrease in plant productivity. In response to …

Rye (Secale cereale L.) is an exceptionally climate-resilient cereal crop, used extensively to
produce improved wheat varieties via introgressive hybridization and possessing the entire …

Hybrid wheat varieties give higher yields than conventional lines but are difficult to produce
due to a lack of effective control of male fertility in breeding lines. One promising system …

In recent decades, genetic advances in yield improvement in the major cereal crops,
including wheat, has stagnated or proceeded at a slower rate than is required to meet future …

Capturing heterosis (hybrid vigor) is a promising way to increase productivity in many crops;
hybrid crops often have superior yields, disease resistance, and stress tolerance compared …

Societal Impact Statement For millennia, humans have used plants and fungi, as foods,
fuels, fibers, and medicines; and have developed techniques for improving their usefulness …

In plants, oxidative stress and metabolic reprogramming frequently induce male sterility,
however our knowledge of the underlying molecular mechanism is far from complete. Here …

Breakthroughs in assembly of whole-genome sequencing and targeted sequence capture
data have accelerated comparative genomics analyses in cereals with big and complex …