In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

Genetic Engineering for Disease Resistance in Plants: Recent Progress and Future
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Main conclusion Using late blight resistance genes targeting conservative effectors of
Phytophthora infestans and the constructing gene pyramids may lead to durable, broad …

Both plants and animals rely on nucleotide-binding domain and leucine-rich repeat-
containing (NLR) proteins to respond to invading pathogens and activate immune …

Agriculture faces the unprecedented task of feeding a world population of 9 billion people by
2050 while simultaneously avoiding harmful environmental and social effects. One effort to …

The need to boost agricultural production in the coming decades in a climate change
scenario requires new approaches for the development of new crop varieties that are more …

From 2006 through 2015, a research project on Durable Resistance in potato against
Phytophthora (DuRPh) was carried out at Wageningen University and Research Centre. Its …

The study of plant diseases is almost as old as agriculture itself. Advancements in molecular
biology have given us much more insight into the plant immune system and how it detects …

In this study, we present the bibliometric trends emerging from research outputs on
consumer perception and preference for genetically modified (GM) foods and policy …

Significant shares of harvests are lost to pests and diseases, therefore, minimizing these
losses could solve part of the supply constraints to feed the world. Cisgenesis is defined as …