Crop diseases cause enormous yield losses and threaten global food security. The use of
highly resistant cultivars can effectively control plant diseases, but in crops, genetic immunity …

Recently, there have been rapid developments in understanding the costs of disease and
pest resistance in model plants and their ecological relevance in wild plants. In crop plants …

Genes encoding pathogenesis‐related (PR‐) proteins isolated from a cDNA library of
Fusarium graminearum‐infected wheat spikes of scab‐resistant cultivar 'Sumai‐3'were …

Virus and viroid diseases are serious constraints to the production and profitability of a wide
range of tropical crops. Many plant virus outbreaks have been recorded in the last two …

Xenia, the phenomenon in which the pollen genotype directly affects the phenotypic
characteristics of maternal tissues (ie, fruit ripening), has applications in crop production and …

Cultivated sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is an important source of food for both humans
and domesticated animals. Here, we show that the B-box (BBX) family transcription factor …

Many of the world's most important food crops are grown in the tropics and major crops like
rice, maize, wheat, sorghum, barley, tomato, chillies, okra, peas, peanut, sunflower …

Only modest progress has been made in the molecular genetic improvement of wheat
following the production of the first transgenic plants in 1992, made possible by the …

The wheat curl mite (WCM), Aceria tosichella, and the plant viruses it transmits represent an
invasive mite-virus complex that has affected cereal crops worldwide. The main damage …

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades play central roles in response to biotic
and abiotic stresses. However, the mechanisms by which various MAPK members regulate …