Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Plant breeders require access to new genetic diversity to satisfy the demands of a growing
human population for more food that can be produced in a variable or changing climate and …

Chenopodium quinoa is a halophytic pseudocereal crop that is being cultivated in an ever-
growing number of countries. Because quinoa is highly resistant to multiple abiotic stresses …

The recognition of a positive correlation between organism genome size with its
transposable element (TE) content, represents a key discovery of the field of genome …

Global climate change is one of the major constraints limiting plant growth, production, and
sustainability worldwide. Moreover, breeding efforts in the past years have focused on …

LTR retrotransposons are major components of plant genomes. They are regulated by a
diverse array of external stresses and tissue culture conditions, displaying finely tuned …

Background Drought stress is one of the most harmful abiotic stresses in crop plants. As a
moderately drought tolerant crop, lentil is a major crop in rainfed areas and a suitable …

Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are implicated in plant regulatory mechanisms of
abiotic stresses tolerance and, despite their antinutritional proprieties in grain legumes, little …

Aflatoxins are secondary metabolites produced by soilborne saprophytic fungus Aspergillus
flavus and closely related species that infect several agricultural commodities including …

Peanut Arachis hypogaea is a segmental allotetraploid in the section Arachis of the genus
Arachis along with the Section Rhizomataceae. Section Arachis has several diploid species …