Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Rye is a valuable food and forage crop, an important genetic resource for wheat and triticale
improvement and an indispensable material for efficient comparative genomic studies in …

INTRODUCTION Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a fungal disease that devastates global
wheat production, with losses of billions of dollars annually. Unlike foliar diseases, FHB …

Allotetraploid cotton is an economically important natural-fiber-producing crop worldwide.
After polyploidization, Gossypium hirsutum L. evolved to produce a higher fiber yield and to …

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Given a growing
global population coupled with increasingly challenging cultivation conditions, facilitating …

Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is an allotetraploid crop planted in Asia, Africa, and
America for edible oil and protein. To explore the origins and consequences of tetraploidy …

Morphinan-based painkillers are derived from opium poppy (Papaver somniferum L.). We
report a draft of the opium poppy genome, with 2.72 gigabases assembled into 11 …

Disease resistance genes encoding nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat (NLR)
intracellular immune receptor proteins detect pathogens by the presence of pathogen …

Increasing crop production is necessary to feed the world's expanding population, and crop
breeders often utilize genetic variations to improve crop yield and quality. However, the …