Anthropogenic activities in the past and present eras have created global warming and
consequently a storm of drought stress, affecting both plants and animals. Being sessile …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Preharvest sprouting (PHS) due to lack of seed dormancy seriously threatens crop
production worldwide. As a complex quantitative trait, breeding of crop cultivars with suitable …

Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Seed plants have evolved to maintain the dormancy of freshly matured seeds until the
appropriate time for germination. Seed dormancy and germination are distinct physiological …

Seed dormancy is an adaptive trait that does not allow the germination of an intact viable
seed under favorable environmental conditions. Non-dormant seeds or seeds with low level …

Some of the World's most valuable crops, including watermelon, honey melon, cucumber,
squash, zucchini and pumpkin, belong to the family Cucurbitaceae. We review insights on …

A major problem facing humanity is that our numbers are growing but the availability of land
and fresh water for agriculture is not. This problem is being exacerbated by climate change …

Brassica species, including crops such as cabbage, turnip and oilseed, display enormous
phenotypic variation. Brassica genomes have all undergone a whole-genome triplication …

Humans have domesticated hundreds of plant and animal species as sources of food, fiber,
forage, and tools over the past 12,000 years, with manifold effects on both human society …