Breeding crop plants with increased yield potential and improved tolerance to stressful
environments is critical for global food security. Drought stress (DS) adversely affects …

In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

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 …

Chickpea is an important leguminous crop with potential to provide dietary proteins to both
humans and animals. It also ameliorates soil nitrogen through biological nitrogen fixation …

Breeding new and high performing cultivars with market‐preferred traits take more than 10
years in the absence of an integrated pre‐breeding programme. During the early phases of …

Agricultural production faces a Herculean challenge to feed the increasing global
population. Food production systems need to deliver more with finite land and water …

Key message Integration of genomic technologies with breeding efforts have been used in
recent years for chickpea improvement. Modern breeding along with low cost genotyping …

Genome editing is a relevant, versatile, and preferred tool for crop improvement, as well as
for functional genomics. In this review, we summarize the advances in gene-editing …

Accelerated crop growth strategy innovations are required as we reach saturation peaks
regarding the productivity of major food crops. Speed breeding (SB) is one of the most …

Climate change is rapidly changing how we live, what we eat and produce, the crops we
breed and the target traits. Previously underutilized orphan crops that are climate resilient …