Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

With increasing demand to support and accelerate progress in breeding for novel traits, the
plant research community faces the need to accurately measure increasingly large numbers …

Natural variants of crops are generated from wild progenitor plants under both natural and
human selection. Diverse crops that are able to adapt to various environmental conditions …

Trehalose is a quantitatively important compatible solute and stress protectant in many
organisms, including green algae and primitive plants. These functions have largely been …

The advent of next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) technologies has led to the
development of rapid genome-wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) detection …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

The long-lasting success of forward genetic screens relies on the simple molecular basis of
the characterized phenotypes, which are typically caused by mutations in single genes …

Resequencing or reference-based assemblies reveal large parts of the small-scale
sequence variation. However, they typically fail to separate such local variation into colinear …

Terminal drought is a major constraint to chickpea productivity. Two component traits
responsible for reduction in yield under drought stress include reduction in seeds size and …

Background Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are providing new ways to
accelerate fine-mapping and gene isolation in many species. To date, the majority of these …