Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a multipurpose food crop which is ranked among the top five
cereal crops in the world, and is used as a source of food, fodder, feed, and fuel. The genus …

Key message The importance and potential of the multi-purpose crop sorghum in global
food security have not yet been fully exploited, and the integration of the state-of-art …

With the recent development of genomic resources and high‐throughput phenoty**
platforms, the 21st century is primed for major breakthroughs in the discovery …

The evolution of domesticated cereals was a complex interaction of shifting selection
pressures and repeated episodes of introgression. Genomes of archaeological crops have …

Agricultural weeds descended from domesticated ancestors, directly from crops
(endoferality) and/or from crop–wild hybridization (exoferality), may have evolutionary …

Hybridisation in the wild between closely related species is a common mechanism of
speciation in the plant kingdom and, in particular, in the grass family. Here we explore the …

Agronomically critical weeds that have evolved alongside crop species are characterized by
rapid adaptation and invasiveness, which can result in an enormous reduction in annual …

Certain plants and microorganisms can produce high amounts of unusual fatty acids (UFAs)
such as hydroxy, conjugated, cyclic, and very long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, which …

Over time, wild crops have been domesticated by humans, and the knowledge gained from
parallel selection and convergent domestication-related studies in cereals has contributed to …

Striga hermonthica is the most important parasitic weed in sub-Saharan Africa and remains
one of the most devastating biotic factors affecting sorghum production in the western …