Grain legumes are important sources of proteins, essential micronutrients and vitamins and
for human nutrition. Climate change, including drought, is a severe threat to grain legume …

Providing safe and secure food for an increasing number of people globally is challenging.
Co** with such a human population by merely applying the conventional agricultural …

Root system architecture plays an important role in plant adaptation to drought stress. The
root system architecture (RSA) consists of several structural features, which includes number …

Climate change has increased the occurrence of extreme weather patterns globally, causing
significant reductions in crop production, and hence threatening food security. In order to …

Multi‐parent advanced generation inter‐cross (MAGIC) populations are an emerging type of
resource for dissecting the genetic structure of traits and improving breeding populations …

We tested the hypothesis that reduced root secondary growth of dicotyledonous species
improves phosphorus acquisition. Functional-structural modeling in SimRoot indicates that …

At the genus and species level, variation in root anatomy and architecture may interact to
affect strategies of drought avoidance. To investigate this idea, root anatomy and …

The recent debates on the legal status of “digital sequence information”(DSI) at the
international level could have extensive consequences for the future of agriculture and food …

Seedling root phenotypes may have important impacts on fitness and are more easily
measured than mature root phenotypes. We phenotyped the roots of 577 genotypes of …

Cowpea is a nutrient-dense legume that significantly contributes to the population's diet in
sub-Saharan Africa and other regions of the world. Improving cowpea cultivars to be more …