Setaria italica (foxtail millet), a founder crop of East Asian agriculture, is a model plant for C4
photosynthesis and develo** approaches to adaptive breeding across multiple climates …

Millets are small seeded cereal crops predominantly cultivated and consumed by resource-
poor farmers in the semi-arid tropics of Asia and Africa. Millets possess rich nutrients and a …

Millets stand out as a sustainable crop with the potential to address the issues of food
insecurity and malnutrition. These small-seeded, drought-resistant cereals have adapted to …

In the post-genome-wide association study era, multi-omics techniques have shown great
power and potential for candidate gene mining and functional genomics research. However …

Foxtail millet (Setaria italica), which was domesticated from the wild species green foxtail
(Setaria viridis), is a rich source of phytonutrients for humans. To evaluate how breeding …

The measurement of organ-scale traits in large-scale fields remains a bottleneck in
genotype-phenotype association studies for crop improvement. To address this issue, an …

The sedentary lifestyle and refined food consumption significantly lead to obesity, type 2
diabetes, and related complications, which have become one of the major threats to global …

Arabidopsis and rice are major models for C3 plants, but we still lack a model for C4 plants.
Recently, Yang and coworkers developed foxtail millet as a C4 plant model; with the rapid …

Agriculture is facing the challenge of feeding the ever-growing population that is projected to
reach ten billion by 2050. While improving crop yield and productivity can address this …

More than half of the calories consumed by humans are provided by three major cereal
crops (rice, maize, and wheat). Orphan crops are usually well adapted to low-input …