Plants are widely considered as the primary source for sustaining life on earth. As plants are
sessile by nature, they are continuously exposed to many environmental stresses at various …

Climate change leading to increased periods of low water availability as well as increasing
demands for food in the coming years makes breeding for drought tolerant crops a high …

We report the first whole genome sequence (WGS) assembly and annotation of a dwarf
coconut variety,'Catigan Green Dwarf'(CATD). The genome sequence was generated using …

Achieving grain supply security with limited arable land is a major challenge in the twenty-
first century, owing to the changing climate and increasing global population. Maize plays an …

Divergent selection of populations in contrasting environments leads to functional genomic
divergence. However, the genomic architecture underlying heterogeneous genomic …

Drought stress is one of the most important abiotic stresses causing disturbance of the
intracellular water relations and leads to growth inhibition, impaired photosynthesis and ion …

Dissection of the genetic loci controlling drought tolerance traits with a complex genetic
inheritance is important for drought-tolerant sugarcane improvement. In this study, we …

Drought is one of the major and growing threats to agriculture productivity and food security.
Metabolites are involved in the regulation of plant responses to various environmental …

Alfalfa is the most produced perennial forage crop in Canada. Drought stress is a major form
of abiotic stress, affecting its productivity and annual yield. A small RNA, miR156, plays a …

Pearl millet is an important crop of the arid and semi-arid ecologies to sustain food and
fodder production. The greater tolerance to drought stress attracts us to examine its cellular …