Vegetable grafting is extensively used today in agricultural production to control soil-borne
pathogens, abiotic and biotic stresses and to improve phenotypic characteristics of the scion …

Maintaining global food security is a major challenge that requires novel strategies for crop
improvement. Epigenetic regulation of plant responses to adverse environmental conditions …

Heterosis (or hybrid vigor) results in a hybrid's phenotypic superiority over its founder
parents for quantitative and qualitative traits. Hybrid vigor is defined by mechanisms such as …

Sessile plants possess an assembly of signaling pathways that perceive and transmit
environmental signals, ultimately resulting in transcriptional reprogramming. Histone is a key …

Pathogen infections seriously threaten plant health and global crop production. Epigenetic
processes such as DNA methylation, histone post-translational modifications, chromatin …

Climate-resilient crops with improved adaptation to the changing climate are urgently
needed to feed the growing population. Hence, developing high-yielding crop varieties with …

Plant grafting is an ancient agricultural practice widely employed in crops such as woody
fruit trees, grapes, and vegetables, in order to improve plant performance. Successful …

Genomic profiling is a suitable tool for variety authentication and has applications in both
operational quality and regulatory raw material control. It can be used to differentiate species …

Flowering is the most critical transition period in the whole lifecycle of plants, and it is a
highly sensitive period to stress. New combinations of temperature, drought stress, carbon …

Crop plants often have challenges of biotic and abiotic stresses, and they adapt
sophisticated ways to acclimate and cope with these through the expression of specific …