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 …

Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

Tomato is one of the major vegetable crops consumed worldwide. Tomato yellow leaf curl
virus (TYLCV) and fungal Oidium sp. are devastating pathogens causing yellow leaf curl …

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated
protein (Cas) technology has been applied in plant breeding mainly on genes for improving …

Many photosynthetic species have evolved CO2-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) to
improve the efficiency of CO2 assimilation by Rubisco and reduce the negative impacts of …

Abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, cold, heat, and heavy metals, extensively
reducing global agricultural production. Traditional breeding approaches and transgenic …

Postharvest waste and loss of horticultural crops exacerbates the agricultural problems
facing humankind and will continue to do so in the next decade. Fruits and vegetables …

The revolutionary technology of CRISPR/Cas systems and their extraordinary potential to
address fundamental questions in every field of biological sciences has led to their …

Plant breeding relies on the presence of genetic variation, as well as on the ability to break
or stabilize genetic linkages between traits. The development of the genome-editing tool …

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 …