Main conclusion While transgenic technology has heralded a new era in crop improvement,
several concerns have precluded their widespread acceptance. Alternative technologies …

Antibiotic resistance is a massive problem rising constantly and spreading rapidly since the
past decade. The major underlying mechanism responsible for this problem is an overuse or …

Wheat production and productivity are challenged by recurrent droughts associated with
climate change globally. Drought and heat stress resilient cultivars can alleviate yield loss in …

Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Various new plant breeding techniques (NPBT) have a similar aim, namely to produce
improved crop varieties that are difficult to obtain through traditional breeding methods …

Genetic engineering technique offers myriads of applications in improvement of horticultural
crops for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, and produce quality enhancement. During last …

One of the major concerns of the general public about transgenic crops relates to the mixing
of genetic materials between species that cannot hybridize by natural means. To meet this …

The improvement of woody fruit species by traditional plant breeding techniques has several
limitations mainly caused by their high degree of heterozygosity, the length of their juvenile …

Key message New advances in crop genetic engineering can significantly pace up the
development of genetically improved varieties with enhanced yield, nutrition and tolerance …

The question whether new genetic modification techniques (nGM) in plant development
might result in non-negligible negative effects for the environment and/or health is significant …