Summary Theobroma cacao—The Food of the Gods, provides the raw material for the
multibillion dollar chocolate industry and is also the main source of income for about 6 …

Background Salinity severely limits wheat production in many parts of the world.
Development of salt tolerant varieties represents the most practical option for enhancing …

Abstract Background Theobroma grandiflorum (Malvaceae), known as cupuassu, is a tree
indigenous to the Amazon basin, valued for its large fruits and seed pulp, contributing …

Pinus koraiensis has significant economic and ecological value in Northeast China.
However, due to the lack of suitable molecular markers, only a few available microsatellite …

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is one of the most important economic crops worldwide. The
propagation of elite varieties of cocoa has been achieved through somatic embryogenesis …

Crop wild relatives (CWRs) of cultivated species may provide a source of genetic variation
that can contribute to improving product quantity and quality. To adequately use these …

Unlike the chloroplast genomes (ptDNA), the plant mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA) are
much more plastic in structure and size but maintain a conserved and essential gene set …

Background The tertiary gene pool of bread wheat, to which Leymus racemosus belongs,
has remained underutilized due to the current limited genomic resources of the species that …

Abstract Spondias tuberosa Arr. Cam belongs to the Anacardiaceae family, an economically
important family of plants whose fruits are consumed by humans and animals. The aim of …

Abstract Theobroma grandiflorum (Willd. ex Spreng.) Schum. is a tree originating in the
Amazon forest. In Brazil, it is known as cupuassu and, like Theobroma cacao, belongs to the …