Simple Summary Feeding our growing population is one of the primary concerns of plant
breeders. Plant breeding needs to deliver a steady stream of modern cultivars in a time-and …

To match predicted population growth, annual food production should be doubled by 2050.
This is not achievable by current agronomical and breeding practices, due to the impact of …

Wheat production worldwide is severely challenged by different pest and pathogen species,
and misguided application of chemicals in farming significantly stimulates crop invaders to …

Rice is one of the most important food crops worldwide. Population growth and climate
change posed great challenges for further rice production. In the past decade, we have …

The adverse effects of high temperatures on fruit quality and yield have been reported in
many studies of grapevines. MiRNAs play crucial roles in plant growth and development and …

Genebanks maintain a rich source of variation for resistance against many pests and
diseases and tolerance to abiotic stresses. However, identifying appropriate germplasm …

Unlike other major crops, little research has been performed on tomato to reduce the
generation time for speed breeding. We evaluated several agronomic treatments to reduce …

Speed breeding is a tool to accelerate breeding and research programmes. Despite its
success and growing popularity with breeders, the genetic basis of plant development under …

Climate-smart agriculture is currently gaining attention at the global level for sustainable
food production and ensuring food security in a changing climate. Climate change is a major …

Genomic selection (GS) can accelerate variety improvement when training set (TS) size and
its relationship with the breeding set (BS) are optimized for prediction accuracies (PAs) of …