Being rooted in place, plants are faced with the challenge of responding to unfavourable
local conditions. One such condition, heat stress, contributes massively to crop losses …

Little millet is a climate-resilient and high-nutrient value plant. The lack of molecular markers
severely limits the adoption of modern genomic approaches in millet breeding studies. Here …

Pearl millet is an important staple food crop of poor people and excels all other cereals due
to its unique features of resilience to adverse climatic conditions. It is rich in micronutrients …

The goal of this study was to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) responsible for
peanut plant (Arachis hypogaea) defence against Puccinia arachidis (causative agent of rust …

Peanut is one of the most valuable legumes, grown mainly in arid and semi-arid regions,
where its production may be hindered by the lack of water. Therefore, breeding drought …

Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase (CKX), responsible for irreversible cytokinin degradation,
also controls plant growth and development and response to abiotic stress. While the CKX …

Cytoplasmic male sterility is a well-proven mechanism for cotton hybrid production. Long
non-coding RNAs belong to a class of transcriptional regulators that function in multiple …

Balancing selection is a form of natural selection maintaining diversity at the sites it targets
and at linked nucleotide sites. Due to selection favoring heterozygosity, it has the potential to …

Background Heterosis is a complex phenomenon wherein the hybrids outperform their
parents. Understanding the underlying molecular mechanism by which hybridization leads …

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) offers a unique system to understand cytoplasmic nuclear
crosstalk, and is also employed for exploitation of hybrid vigor in various crops. Pigeonpea …