Societal Impact Statement Biodiversity is essential to food security and nutrition locally and
globally. By reviewing the global state of edible plants and highlighting key neglected and …

Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of herbal products, and they are
disappearing at a high speed. This article reviews global trends, developments and …

Insects have presented human society with some of its greatest development challenges by
spreading diseases, consuming crops and damaging infrastructure. Despite the massive …

Priming applied to commercial seed lots is widely used by seed technologists to enhance
seed vigour in terms of germination potential and increased stress tolerance. Priming can be …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …

Medicinal plants research in Asia continues to receive significant national and international
attention, particularly concerning its multiple roles in poverty alleviation and health care …

Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

The lifespan or longevity of a seed is the time period over which it can remain viable. Seed
longevity is a complex trait and varies greatly between species and even seed lots of the …

There is a pressing need to conserve plant diversity to prevent extinctions and to enable
sustainable use of plant material by current and future generations. Here, we review the …

Main conclusion Plant tissue culture has been used for conservation, micropropagation, and
in planta overproduction of some pharma molecules of medicinal plants. New biotechnology …