Tremendous chemical diversity is the hallmark of plants and is supported by highly complex
biochemical machinery. Plant metabolic enzymes originated and were transferred from …

The majority of the crops and vegetables of today were domesticated from their wild
progenitors within the past 12 000 years. Considerable research effort has been expended …

Starch is a vital energy source for living organisms and is a key raw material and additive in
the food and non-food industries. Starch has received continuous attention in multiple …

Background The global shift in food consumption patterns accompanied by a sedentary
lifestyle has been driving the upsurge of non-communicable diseases, projected to remain …

The sedentary lifestyle and refined food consumption significantly lead to obesity, type 2
diabetes, and related complications, which have become one of the major threats to global …

The Waxy (Wx) gene that governs amylose synthesis is an old but widely used target in
improving the quality of starchy crops. New genome-editing strategies are being deployed to …

Despite the almost universal acceptance of the phrase “you are what you eat,” investment in
understanding diet-based nutrition to address human health has been dwarfed compared to …

Mainstreaming the low glycemic index (GI) trait in breeding programs is constrained by low-
throughput and high-cost clinical GI phenotyping. This study aimed to evaluate the potential …

As efforts are made to increase food security, millets are gaining increasing importance due
to their excellent nutritional credentials. Among the millets, pearl millet is the predominant …

Ninety-nine lines from recombinant inbred lines were selected to investigate the effects of
starch synthesis-related genes on resistant starch (RS) content in different proceeding types …