Plant oils have so far been mostly directed toward food and feed production. Nowadays
however, these oils are more and more used as competitive alternatives to mineral …

Highlights•Systematic metabolic engineering strategy accelerates high-oil maize
breeding.•Maximizing the embryo oil content of the maize kernels without sacrificing …

Background A central question for disease studies and crop improvements is how genetics
variants drive phenotypes. Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) provides a powerful …

Kernel hardness is one of the most important single traits of wheat seed. It classifies wheat
cultivars, determines milling quality and affects many end-use qualities. Starch granule …

High-quality maize oil, having low level of saturated fatty acids, is highly suitable for human
consumption. It is considered to be better than most of other edible oils due to its fatty acid …

Autotetraploid rice is a useful germplasm for polyploid rice breeding in improving nutritional
values. Nevertheless, underlying mechanism of starch and lipid accumulation in tetraploid …

Maize is an important oil seed crop and a major food crop in different parts of the world.
Since maize has relatively lower seed oil content as compared to other oil crops, efforts are …

Protein–energy malnutrition (PEM) has adversely affected the generations of developing
countries. It is a syndrome that in severity causes death. PEM generally affects infants of 1–5 …

The wheat Hardness (Ha) locus consists of Puroindoline a (Pina) and Puroindoline b (Pinb)
and controls whether wheat is soft or hard textured. PINA and PINB act cooperatively to …

Puroindoline a and b (Pina and Pinb), together make up the functional components of the
wheat grain hardness locus (Ha) and have antimicrobial properties. The antifungal activity of …