Among abiotic stresses, salinity is a major global threat to agriculture, causing severe
damage to crop production and productivity. Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is regarded as a …

Main conclusion The present review gives an insight into the salinity stress tolerance
responses and mechanisms of underground vegetable crops. Phytoprotectants, agronomic …

Rice blast is one of the most destructive diseases affecting rice worldwide. The adoption of
host resistance has proven to be the most economical and effective approach to control rice …

Genome editing by sequence-specific nucleases (SSNs) has revolutionized biology by
enabling targeted modifications of genomes. Although routine plant genome editing …

Multiple environmental stresses affect growth and development of plants. Plants try to adapt
under these unfavorable condition through various evolutionary mechanisms like …

Over 170 years after the infamous Irish Potato Famine, potato late blight (PLB) caused by
Phytophthora infestans remains the single most devastating disease of global potato …

Biotic stresses threaten to destabilize global food security and cause major losses to crop
yield worldwide. In response to pest and pathogen attacks, plants trigger many adaptive …

Plant pathogens deliver effectors to alter host processes. Knowledge of how effectors target
and manipulate host proteins is critical to understand crop disease. Here, we show that in …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the highest-value vegetable crops worldwide.
Understanding the genetic regulation of primary metabolite levels can inform efforts aimed …

Ethylene response factors (ERFs) are unique to plants and play crucial roles in their
response to various biotic and abiotic stresses, but the physiological and molecular …