Advances in molecular biology including genomics, high-throughput sequencing, and
genome editing enable increasingly faster and more precise cultivar development …

Feeding 10 billion people sustainably by 2050 in the era of slow genetic progress has
spurred urgent calls to bring more crops per unit time. Over the last century, crop …

Melon is an important horticultural crop with a pleasant aromatic flavor and abundance of
health-promoting substances. Numerous melon varieties have been cultivated worldwide in …

Background The massive structural variations and frequent introgression highly contribute to
the genetic diversity of wheat, while the huge and complex genome of polyploid wheat …

Breeders persistently supply farmers with the best varieties in order to exceed consumer
demand through plant-breeding processes that are resource-intensive. In order to motivate …

Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) is a vegetable crop with economic value and ecological
significance in the genus Radish, family Brassicaceae. In recent years, developed countries …

Three pumpkin species Cucurbita maxima, C. moschata, and C. pepo are commonly
cultivated worldwide. To identify genome-wide SNPs in these cultivated pumpkin species …

The immense therapeutic and economic values of medicinal plants have attracted
increasing attention from the worldwide researchers. It has been recognized that production …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been widely used as a molecular marker in
crop species with advances in next-generation sequencing technology. The use of SNP …

Germplasm collections are indispensable resources for the mining of important genes and
variety improvement. To preserve and utilize germplasm collections in bottle gourd, we …