Due to an increase in the consumption of food, feed, and fuel and to meet global food
security needs for the rapidly growing human population, there is a necessity to obtain high …

Genome doubling in plants induces physiological and molecular changes to withstand
environmental stress. Diploid rice (D-2x) and its tetraploid (T-4x) plants were treated with 25 …

Polyploidy induction is recognized as one of the major evolutionary processes leading to
remarkable morphological, physiological, and genetic variations in plants. Soybean (Glycine …

Polyploid induction is of utmost importance in horticultural plants for the development of new
varieties with desirable morphological and physiological traits. Polyploidy may occur …

Biodiversity of red clover is changing. It is become more difficult to find new breeding
material. Moreover, populations with predominant morphological features of cultivars are …

Allopolyploidy in plants involves the merging of two or more distinct parental genomes into a
single nucleus, a significant evolutionary process in the plant kingdom. Transcriptomic …

Timothy grass (Phleum pratense L.) is one of the most important forage crops in temperate
regions. Forage production, however, faces many challenges, and new cultivars adapted to …

Drought stress is one of the most critical abiotic factors which negatively impacts on growth,
productivity, and survival of plants. Grass species have an important role in the sustainable …

Lolium multiflorum Lam., commonly known as Italian ryegrass, is a forage grass mostly
valued for its high palatability and digestibility, along with its high productivity. However …

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) has two ecotypes that are genetically and phenotypically
distinct: upland and lowland. Furthermore, the upland ecotype has two distinct cytological …