Products derived from agricultural biotechnology is fast becoming one of the biggest
agricultural trade commodities globally, clothing us, feeding our livestock, and fueling our …

The floral quartet model of floral organ specification poses that different tetramers of MIKC-
type MADS-domain transcription factors control gene expression and hence the identity of …

Genome editing tools have rapidly been adopted by plant scientists for gene function
discovery and crop improvement. The current technical challenge is to efficiently induce …

Polyphenol Oxidases (PPOs) catalyze the conversion of phenolic substrates to quinones,
leading to the formation of dark-colored precipitates in fruits and vegetables. This process …

Fresh fruits and vegetable products are easily perishable during postharvest handling due to
enzymatic browning reactions. This phenomenon has contributed to a significant loss of food …

Classical plant breeding was extremely successful in generating high yielding crop varieties.
Yet, in modern crops, the long domestication process has impoverished the genetic diversity …

Cereal crops, including triticeae species (barley, wheat, rye), as well as edible cereals
(wheat, corn, rice, oat, rye, sorghum), are significant suppliers for human consumption …

Highlights•Synthetic metabolic pathways to improve plant carbon efficiency.•Reducing
synthetic fertilizer usage in agriculture by optimizing plant nitrogen and phosphorous …

Most conventional and modern crop-improvement methods exploit natural or artificially
induced genetic variations and require laborious characterization of the progenies of …

Highlights•Novel CRISPR/Cas applications for RNA manipulations.•Employment of Cas
proteins as scaffold for effector proteins, such as activators, repressors or base …