Plant secondary metabolites (SMs) play important roles in plant survival and in creating
ecological connections between other species. In addition to providing a variety of valuable …

Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Aegilops tauschii, the diploid wild progenitor of the D subgenome of bread wheat, is a
reservoir of genetic diversity for improving bread wheat performance and environmental …

In the growth condition (s) of plants, numerous secondary metabolites (SMs) are produced
by them to serve variety of cellular functions essential for physiological processes, and …

In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

Crop improvements can help us to meet the challenge of feeding a population of 10 billion,
but can we breed better varieties fast enough? Technologies such as genoty**, marker …

Mineral phosphorus (P) fertilizers support high crop yields and contribute to feeding the
teeming global population. However, complex edaphic processes cause P to be …

The field of biology has seen tremendous technological progress in recent years, fuelled by
the exponential growth in processing power and high‐level computing, and the rise of global …

To meet increasing global food demand, breeders and scientists aim to improve the yield
and quality of major food crops. Plant diseases threaten food security and are expected to …

Despite the numerous advances made in our understanding of the physiology and
molecular genetics of salinity tolerance, there have been relatively few applications of these …