Global development has been heavily reliant on the overexploitation of natural resources
since the Industrial Revolution. With the extensive use of fossil fuels, deforestation, and other …

The Green Revolution of the 1960s improved crop yields in part through the widespread
cultivation of semidwarf plant varieties, which resist lodging but require a high-nitrogen (N) …

Climate change is a defining challenge of the 21st century, and this decade is a critical time
for action to mitigate the worst effects on human populations and ecosystems. Plant science …

Extreme climate events constitute a major risk to global food production. Among these,
extreme rainfall is often dismissed from historical analyses and future projections, the …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is one of the most important crops in the world. Since the completion of
rice reference genome sequences, tremendous progress has been achieved in …

The maize root system has been reshaped by indirect selection during global adaptation to
new agricultural environments. In this study, we characterized the root systems of more than …

Mitigating soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions is essential for staying below a 2° C warming
threshold. However, accurate assessments of mitigation potential are limited by uncertainty …

The inter-subspecific indica-japonica hybrid rice confer potential higher yield than the widely
used indica-indica intra-subspecific hybrid rice. Nevertheless, the utilization of this strong …

Domesticated grapevines spread to Europe around 3,000 years ago. Previous studies have
revealed genomic signals of introgression from wild to cultivated grapes in Europe, but the …

Understanding how numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) shape phenotypic variation is an
important question in genetics. To address this, we established a permanent population of …