Yield stability of legume crops is constrained by a number of pest and diseases. Major
diseases are rusts, powdery and downy mildews, ascochyta blights, botrytis gray molds …

Metabolite profiling is a fast growing technology and is useful for phenotyping and
diagnostic analyses of plants. It is also rapidly becoming a key tool in functional annotation …

Plant cell suspension cultures have several advantages that make them suitable for the
production of recombinant proteins. They can be cultivated under aseptic conditions using …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a well-studied model of fleshy fruit development and
ripening. Tomato fruit development is well understood from a hormonal-regulatory …

Plants respond to stresses by producing a broad spectrum of bioactive specialized
metabolites. Hormonal elicitors, such as jasmonates, trigger a complex signaling circuit …

Background Grape berry development is a dynamic process that involves a complex series
of molecular genetic and biochemical changes divided into three major phases. During …

The seed oil content in oilseed crops is a major selection trait to breeders. In Arabidopsis
(Arabidopsis thaliana), LEAFY COTYLEDON1 (LEC1) and LEC1-LIKE (L1L) are key …

Because of ever‐increasing environmental deterioration it is likely that the influx of UV‐B
radiation (280–320 nm) will increase as a result of the depletion of stratospheric ozone …

Abstract Strawberry (Fragaria× ananassa Duch), a fruit of economic and nutritional
importance, is also a model species for fleshy fruits and genomics in Rosaceae. Strawberry …

Metabolomics is perhaps the ultimate level of post‐genomic analysis as it can reveal
changes in metabolite fluxes that are controlled by only minor changes within gene …