Agricultural production faces a Herculean challenge to feed the increasing global
population. Food production systems need to deliver more with finite land and water …

CONTEXT A host of best water and soil management practices (BMPs) hold promise in
addressing water scarcity and land degradation to enable sustainable crop intensification in …

Psidium guajava L.(guava) is predominantly grown throughout the world and known for its
medicinal properties in treating various diseases and disorders. The present work focuses …

Background The genetic base of soybean cultivars in India has been reported to be
extremely narrow, due to repeated use of few selected and elite genotypes as parents in the …

The rapid growth of soybean cultivation in the world augurs well for achieving SDG2 of
promoting sustainable agriculture, ending hunger, achieving food security, and improving …

Background Psidium guajava, also known as guava (GUA) in Asia, is a fruit-bearing crop
from the Myrtaceae family, shown to have immense nutritional and biological potential …

Background The demand of maize crop is increasing day by day, hence to reduce the
production and demand gap, there is a need to extract the high yielding parental lines to …

Abstract In Eastern and Southern Africa, as the public sector has retreated from maize seed
production and the private sector has emerged to fill the resulting void, a key issue for …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) incessantly produced
as by-products of metabolism play significant roles in seed physiology. ROS (hydroxyl …

Populations are continually adapting to their environment. Knowledge of which populations
and individuals harbor unique and agriculturally useful variations has the potential to …