Multiple “omics” approaches have emerged as successful technologies for plant systems
over the last few decades. Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have paved a …

Grain legumes are important sources of proteins, essential micronutrients and vitamins and
for human nutrition. Climate change, including drought, is a severe threat to grain legume …

Cadmium (Cd) is a harmful heavy metal that can cause potent environmental and health
hazards at different trophic levels through food chain. Cd is relatively non-biodegradable …

The general circulation models estimated an average increase in global surface
temperature about 4° C (2.9 to 5.5° C). Escalating temperature and extreme weather events …

Industrialization and modernization of agricultural systems contaminated lithosphere,
hydrosphere, and biosphere of the Earth. Sustainable remediation of contamination is …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are effectively applied to detect the marker trait
associations (MTAs) using whole genome-wide variants for complex quantitative traits in …

Breeding of stress-tolerant plants is able to improve crop yield under stress conditions,
whereas CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing has been shown to be an efficient way for molecular …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, which form symbioses with the roots of the most
important crop species, are usually considered biofertilizers, whose exploitation could …

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

Due to an increase in the consumption of food, feed, fuel and to meet global food security
needs for the rapidly growing human population, there is a necessity to breed high yielding …