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

The availability of genome sequences for several crops and advances in genome editing
approaches has opened up possibilities to breed for almost any given desirable trait …

Salinity is one of the most important abiotic stress affecting the world rice production. The
cultivation of salinity-tolerant cultivars is the most cost-effective and environmentally friendly …

Climate change, food shortage, water scarcity, and population growth are some of the
threatening challenges being faced in today's world. Drought stress (DS) poses a constant …

Rice blast is one of the most destructive diseases affecting rice worldwide. The adoption of
host resistance has proven to be the most economical and effective approach to control rice …

The various crop species are major agricultural products and play an indispensable role in
sustaining human life. Over a long period, breeders strove to increase crop yield and …

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats‐associated protein 9
(CRISPR/Cas9) system is a powerful tool for editing plant genomes. Efficient genome editing …

Doubled haploid technology has been widely applied to multiple plant species and is
recognized as one of the most important technologies for improving crop breeding efficiency …

Plant protoplasts are useful for assessing the efficiency of clustered regularly interspaced
short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR‐associated protein 9 (Cas9) mutagenesis. We …

Members of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor (eIF) gene family, including eIF4E and
its paralogue eIF (iso) 4E, have previously been identified as recessive resistance alleles …