Background The process of selecting superior performing plants for food, feed and fiber
products dates back more than 10,000 years and has been substantially refined in the last …

Maize productivity is threatened by global climate change. Climate change scenarios
suggest that north‐western (NW) Europe will get warmer and drier during the main crop …

During the last decade, there have been many advances in research and technology that
have greatly contributed to expanded capabilities and knowledge in detection and …

Highlights•Metabolomics is a useful approach for future goals in agronomy and food
production such as sustainability, food quality, safety and nutrition.•Metabolomics enables …

Maize (Zea mays L.) is an indispensable crop worldwide for food, feed, and bioenergy
production. Fusarium verticillioides (F. verticillioides) is a widely distributed phytopathogen …

Phlobaphenes are insoluble phenolic compounds which are accumulated in a limited
number of tissues such as seed pericarp and cob glumes, conferring on them a typical red …

Generating genomics-driven knowledge opens a way to accelerate the resistance breeding
process by family or population mapping and genomic selection. Important prerequisites are …

Fusarium ear rot (FER) is a serious fungal disease occurring the late growth stage of maize.
FER not only reduces the yield of maize but also causes mycotoxin contamination, which …

Fusarium verticillioides (F. verticillioides) is a widely distributed phytopathogen that incites
multiple destructive diseases in maize, posing a grave threat to corn yields and quality …

Fusarium ear rot (FER) is a destructive maize fungal disease worldwide. In this study, three
tropical maize populations consisting of 874 inbred lines were used to perform genome …