During the last few decades, the food and beverage industry faced increasing demand for
the design of new functional food products free of synthetic compounds and artificial …

Drought is a main factor limiting crop yields. Modern agricultural technologies such as
irrigation systems, ground mulching, and rainwater storage can prevent drought, but these …

Leaf shape, a spectacularly diverse plant trait, varies across taxonomic levels, geography
and in response to environmental differences. However, comprehensive intraspecific …

Particulate matter (PM) is a serious threat to human health, climate, and ecosystems.
Furthermore, owing to the combined influence of indoor and outdoor particles, indoor PM …

Wheat is among the most produced grain crops of the world and alone provides a fifth of the
world's calories and protein. Wheat has played a key role in food security since the crop …

Introduction Evaluations of interspecific hybrids are limited, as classical genebank accession
descriptors are semi-subjective, have qualitative traits and show complications when …

Assessing conformation features in an accurate and rapid manner remains a challenge in
the dairy industry. While recent developments in computer vision has greatly improved …

Sweet potato is a crop with a wide morpho-agronomic variation among genotypes. Source-
sink relationship is determined by the regulation capacity of heterotrophic and autotrophic …

Abstract During 2012–14, 737 sweetpotato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.(Convolvulaceae),
plant introduction (PI) accessions from the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural …

Sweet potato is a crop with a wide capacity to adapt to adverse conditions. To study the
tolerance of the sweet potato to a low-altitude environment, 34 genotypes comprising three …