Nowadays, consumers are demanding nutrient‐rich products for health optimal benefits. In
this regard, Brassicaceae family plants, previously named cruciferous, group a large number …

Interspecific hybridization is widespread in nature, where it can lead to either the production
of new species or to the introgression of useful adaptive traits between species. In …

Climate change will have major impacts on crop production: not just increasing drought and
heat stress, but also increasing insect and disease loads and the chance of extreme weather …

Background Unreduced gametes (gametes with the somatic chromosome number) may
provide a pathway for evolutionary speciation via allopolyploid formation. We evaluated the …

Modern agriculture is facing multiple challenges including the necessity for a substantial
increase in production to meet the needs of a burgeoning human population. Water …

Individuals within a population of a sexually reproducing species will have some degree of
heritable genomic variation caused by mutations, insertion/deletions (INDELS), inversions …

The economically valuable Brassica species include the six related members of U's
Triangle. Despite the agronomic and economic importance of these Brassicas, the impacts …

Background Resistance to the blackleg disease of Brassica napus (canola/oilseed rape),
caused by the hemibiotrophic fungal pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans, is determined by …

Agricultural selection of desirable traits in domesticated plant and animal species mimics
natural evolutionary selection for ability of species to survive, thrive, and reproduce in the …

Brassica rapa is the most widely distributed and has the longest history of domestication of
the agricultural Brassica species. Molecular genetic diversity, based on 51 simple sequence …