Most conventional and modern crop-improvement methods exploit natural or artificially
induced genetic variations and require laborious characterization of the progenies of …

Highlights•Genomics tools must show benefits over and above existing techniques.•Field-
based phenotyping still offers the most reliable screen.•Association mapping will be more …

Environmental stress significantly affects plant growth, development, and survival. Plants
respond to stressors such as temperature fluctuations, water scarcity, nutrient deficiencies …

All terrestrial life is influenced by multi-directional flows of information about its environment,
enabling malleable phenotypic change through signals, chemical processes, or various …

Abstract Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni is a widely grown species in various regions of
the world, mainly due to its sweetening properties attributed to steviol glycosides. Despite …

With the continuous increase in the population of developing countries and decline of
natural resources, there is an urgent need to qualitatively and quantitatively augment crop …

Most important food and feed crops in the world belong to the C3 grass family. The future of
food security is highly reliant on achieving genetic gains of those grasses. Conventional …

As climate changes and a growing global population continue to escalate the need for
greater production capabilities of food crops, technological advances in agricultural and …

Owing to the increasing concerns on the environment, climate change, and limited natural
resources, there are currently considerable efforts applied to produce chemicals and …

Yellow rust is an important destructive fungal disease caused by Puccinia striiformis in small
grain cereals, and the prevalent Chinese yellow race CYR34 has recently become …