Plants in nature are constantly exposed to a variety of abiotic and biotic stresses which limits
their growth and production. Enhancing crop yield and production to feed exponentially …

Background Yoghurt and related products relish vast consumption pattern worldwide. The
quality of such products depreciates during chilled-chain storage and transportation due to …

The current genome editing system Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic
Repeats Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has already confirmed its proficiency, adaptability, and …

Precise replacement of an allele with an elite allele controlling an important agronomic trait
in a predefined manner by gene editing technologies is highly desirable in crop …

Breeding has been used successfully for many years in the fruit industry, giving rise to most
of today's commercial fruit cultivars. More recently, new molecular breeding techniques have …

Drought stress has severely hampered maize production, affecting the livelihood and
economics of millions of people worldwide. In the future, as a result of climate change …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersium), an important fruit crop worldwide, requires efficient sugar
allocation for fruit development. However, molecular mechanisms for sugar import to fruits …

Xylem vascular wilt pathogens cause devastating diseases in plants. Proliferation of these
pathogens in the xylem causes massive disruption of water and mineral transport, resulting …

Highlights•Pan-genomes represent the complex genomic diversity found in plant
species.•Novel approaches are under development to enable more complex pan-genome …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have a long history of use in the food industry. Some species are
part of the normal human microbiota and have beneficial properties for human health. Their …