Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Improvement in traits of agronomic importance is the top breeding priority of crop
improvement programs. Majority of these agronomic traits show complex quantitative …

Agricultural production faces a Herculean challenge to feed the increasing global
population. Food production systems need to deliver more with finite land and water …

Underutilized crops are, by definition, under‐researched compared to staple crops yet come
with traits that may be especially important given climate change and the need to feed a …

Key message Groundnut has entered now in post-genome era enriched with optimum
genomic and genetic resources to facilitate faster trait dissection, gene discovery and …

Multiparental genetic mapping populations such as nested‐association mapping (NAM)
have great potential for investigating quantitative traits and associated genomic regions …

Ascorbate peroxidase (APX), an important antioxidant enzyme, plays a significant role in
ROS scavenging by catalyzing the decrease of hydrogen peroxide under various …

Globally, weedy plants are a major constraint to sustainable crop production. Much of the
success of weeds rests with their ability to rapidly adapt in the face of human‐mediated …

Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oil and cash crop. Pod size is one of
the major traits determining yield and commodity characteristic of peanut. Fine mapping of …

Seed weight in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) has direct impact on yield as well as
market price because of preference for bold seeds by consumers and industry, thereby …