Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Recent years have seen a surge in plant genome sequencing projects and the comparison
of multiple related individuals. The high degree of genomic variation observed led to the …

Plant breeders face multiple global challenges that affect food security, productivity,
accessibility, and nutritional quality. One major challenge for plant breeders is developing …

Intercropping is both a well-established and yet novel agricultural practice, depending on
one's perspective. Such perspectives are principally governed by geographic location and …

The global climate change and unfavourable abiotic and biotic factors are limiting
agricultural productivity and therefore intensifying the challenges for crop scientists to meet …

Wild tomatoes (Solanum peruvianum) are important genomic resources for tomato research
and breeding. Development of a foreign DNA-free clustered regularly interspaced short …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is one of the most economically important vegetables
throughout the world. It is one of the best studied cultivated dicotyledonous plants, often …

Global human health and sustainable production are threatened by an imbalance and
deficiency of plant-based diet vegetable consumption across countries worldwide. Here, we …

The assembly and scaffolding of plant crop genomes facilitate the characterization of
genetically diverse cultivated and wild germplasm. The cultivated tomato (Solanum …

Global agricultural industries are under pressure to meet the future food demand; however,
the existing crop genetic diversity might not be sufficient to meet this expectation. Advances …