Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

The field of plant genome sequencing has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, leading to
increases in the quantity and quality of publicly available genomic resources. The growing …

Wildfires are often perceived as destructive disturbances, but we propose that when
integrating evolutionary and socioecological factors, fires in most ecosystems can be …

Understanding the quantitative genetics of crops has been and will continue to be central to
maintaining and improving global food security. We outline four stages that plant breeding …

Understanding specialization patterns of countries in food production can provide relevant
insights for the evaluation and design of policies seeking to achieve food security and …

Biological invasions present a global problem underlain by an ecological paradox that
thwarts explanation: how do some exotic species, evolutionarily naïve to their new …

To the Editor—Wyborn and Evans 1 argue that global priority maps for conservation have
questionable utility and may crowd out local and more contextual research. While we agree …

Eggplant is the fifth most economically important solanaceous crop after potato, tomato,
pepper, and tobacco. Apart from the well-known brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) …

Crop landraces have unique local agroecological and societal functions and offer important
genetic resources for plant breeding. Recognition of the value of landrace diversity and …