Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

Salt stress under the scalpel–dissecting the genetics of salt tolerance

MJL Morton, M Awlia, N Al‐Tamimi, S Saade… - The Plant …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Salt stress limits the productivity of crops grown under saline conditions, leading to
substantial losses of yield in saline soils and under brackish and saline irrigation. Salt …

Crop wild relatives: A valuable source of tolerance to various abiotic stresses

A Kapazoglou, M Gerakari, E Lazaridi, K Kleftogianni… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global climate change is one of the major constraints limiting plant growth, production, and
sustainability worldwide. Moreover, breeding efforts in the past years have focused on …

Genome of Solanum pimpinellifolium provides insights into structural variants during tomato breeding

X Wang, L Gao, C Jiao, S Stravoravdis… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Solanum pimpinellifolium (SP) is the wild progenitor of cultivated tomato. Because of its
remarkable stress tolerance and intense flavor, SP has been used as an important …

The genomic route to tomato breeding: Past, present, and future

Y Wang, C Sun, Z Ye, C Li, S Huang, T Lin - Plant Physiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Over the past 10,000 years, tomato species have undergone both unintentional and
intentional selection to enhance their favorable traits for human consumption and …

Rewilding crops for climate resilience: economic analysis and de novo domestication strategies

A Razzaq, SH Wani, F Saleem, M Yu… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
To match predicted population growth, annual food production should be doubled by 2050.
This is not achievable by current agronomical and breeding practices, due to the impact of …

Genome sequences of horticultural plants: past, present, and future

F Chen, Y Song, X Li, J Chen, L Mo, X Zhang… - Horticulture …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Horticultural plants play various and critical roles for humans by providing fruits, vegetables,
materials for beverages, and herbal medicines and by acting as ornamentals. They have …

Mechanisms of salinity tolerance and their possible application in the breeding of vegetables

M Shams, A Khadivi - BMC Plant Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background In dry and semi-arid areas, salinity is the most serious hazard to agriculture,
which can affect plant growth and development adversely. Over-accumulation of Na+ in …

[HTML][HTML] The effective role of nano-silicon application in improving the productivity and quality of grafted tomato grown under salinity stress

EG Sayed, AWM Mahmoud, MM El-Mogy, MAA Ali… - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study aims to determine the influence of grafting and nano-silicon fertilizer on the
growth and production of tomatoes (Solanumlycopersicum L.) under salinity conditions. A …

Single primer enrichment technology (SPET) for high-throughput genoty** in tomato and eggplant germplasm

L Barchi, A Acquadro, D Alonso, G Aprea… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Single primer enrichment technology (SPET) is a new, robust, and customizable solution for
targeted genoty**. Unlike genoty** by sequencing (GBS), and like DNA chips, SPET is …