Climate change gives rise to numerous environmental stresses, including soil salinity.
Salinity/salt stress is the second biggest abiotic factor affecting agricultural productivity …

Main conclusion While transgenic technology has heralded a new era in crop improvement,
several concerns have precluded their widespread acceptance. Alternative technologies …

Isoflavonoids, which include a variety of secondary metabolites, are derived from the
phenylpropanoid pathway and are distributed predominantly in leguminous plants. These …

Background CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is now revolutionizing the ability to effectively
modify plant genomes in the absence of efficient homologous recombination mechanisms …

Genome editing (GE) has revolutionized the biological sciences by creating a novel
approach for manipulating the genomes of living organisms. Many tools have been …

Biofortification through plant breeding is a sustainable approach to improve the nutritional
profile of food crops. The majority of the world's population depends on staple food crops; …

The output of genetic mutant screenings in soya bean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] has been
limited by its paleopolypoid genome. CRISPR‐Cas9 can generate multiplex mutants in …

The current pace of crop improvement is inadequate to feed the burgeoning human
population by 2050. Higher, more stable, and sustainable crop production is required …

Increasing agricultural productivity via modern breeding strategies is of prime interest to
attain global food security. An array of biotic and abiotic stressors affect productivity as well …

We report reference‐quality genome assemblies and annotations for two accessions of
soybean (Glycine max) and for one accession of Glycine soja, the closest wild relative of G …