The first paradigm of plant breeding involves direct selection-based phenotypic observation,
followed by predictive breeding using statistical models for quantitative traits constructed …

Climate change with altered pest-disease dynamics and rising abiotic stresses threatens
resource-constrained agricultural production systems worldwide. Genomics-assisted …

Since the official release of the stand-alone bioinformatics toolkit TBtools in 2020, its
superior functionality in data analysis has been demonstrated by its widespread adoption by …

Sugarcane, the world's most harvested crop by tonnage, has shaped global history, trade
and geopolitics, and is currently responsible for 80% of sugar production worldwide. While …

Heterosis boosts crop yield; however, harnessing additional progressive heterosis in
polyploids is challenging for breeders. We bioengineered a 'mitosis instead of …

Coffea arabica, an allotetraploid hybrid of Coffea eugenioides and Coffea canephora, is the
source of approximately 60% of coffee products worldwide, and its cultivated accessions …

Hybrid potato breeding will transform the crop from a clonally propagated tetraploid to a
seed-reproducing diploid. Historical accumulation of deleterious mutations in potato …

Kiwifruit is a recently domesticated horticultural fruit crop with substantial economic and
nutritional value, especially because of the high content of vitamin C in its fruit. In this study …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) crops suffer severe losses
to late blight caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Solanum …

Plant genome sequences catalogue genes and the genetic elements that regulate their
expression. Such inventories further research aims as diverse as map** the molecular …