Environmental pollution of heavy metals (HMs), mainly due to anthropogenic activities, has
received growing attention in recent decades. HMs, especially the non-essential …

Food safety has emerged as a high-urgency matter for sustainable agricultural production.
Toxic metal contamination of soil and water significantly affects agricultural productivity …

Key message Two major and stable QTLs for spike compactness and length were detected
and validated in multiple genetic backgrounds and environments, and their pleiotropic …

Metabolomic investigations offers a significant foundation for improved comprehension of
the adaptability of plants to reconfigure the key metabolic pathways and their response to …

Key message A major and stable QTL for fertile spikelet number per spike and grain number
per fertile spikelet identified in a 4.96-Mb interval on chromosome 2A was validated in …

Background Grain number per spike (GNS) is a pivotal determinant of grain yield in wheat.
Pubing 3228 (PB3228), a wheat-Agropyron cristatum germplasm, exhibits a notably higher …

In the present work, physio-biochemical and DNA methylation analysis were conducted in
wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars “Bolani”(drought-tolerant) and “Sistan”(drought …

The Karakılçık landrace is known for its quality traits, especially protein content. However, its
high plant height causes lodging and yield loss, which limits the production area. A …

The first man-made cereal grain triticale merges the yield and quality potential of wheat with
tolerance of rye against environmental stresses. To find the traits with the greatest impact on …

Finding the suitable traits that mediate grain yield under stress condition represent an
important challenge to plant breeders in order to improve production. Meaningful progress in …