The majority of the crops and vegetables of today were domesticated from their wild
progenitors within the past 12 000 years. Considerable research effort has been expended …

Medicinal plants produce important substrates for their adaptation and defenses against
environmental factors and, at the same time, are used for traditional medicine and industrial …

Background Mango is one of the world's most important tropical fruits. It belongs to the family
Anacardiaceae, which includes several other economically important species, notably …

Allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium) species represents a model system for the study of plant
polyploidy, molecular evolution, and domestication. Here, chromosome-scale genome …

Physio-biochemical responses of pistachio varieties including Pistacia vera
L.'Ghazvini'(GH), P. vera 'Ghermez-Pesteh'(GP) and P. atlantica subsp. mutica (M) were …

Abstract The Green Non-Coding Database (GreeNC) is one of the reference databases for
the study of plant long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). Here we present our most recent …

The pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins constitute one of the largest nuclear-encoded
protein families in higher plants, with over 400 members in most sequenced plant species …

Summary The Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), a member of the Rhamnaceae family,
is an important perennial fruit tree crop of substantial economic, ecological and nutritional …

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is an important spice and medicinal plant that is unique for its
accumulation of abundant secondary metabolites, which create a characteristic aroma and …

Fruit tree crops are an essential part of the food production systems and are key to achieve
food and nutrition security. Genetic improvement of fruit trees by conventional breeding has …