Multiple “omics” approaches have emerged as successful technologies for plant systems
over the last few decades. Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have paved a …

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 …

As one of the important concepts in conventional quantitative genetics and breeding, genetic
gain can be defined as the amount of increase in performance that is achieved annually …

Climate change affects agricultural productivity worldwide. Increased prices of food
commodities are the initial indication of drastic edible yield loss, which is expected to …

Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS)-induced mutagenesis is a powerful tool to generate genetic
resource for identifying untapped genes and characterizing the function of genes to …

The options for increasing food production by at least 70% over the next four decades so as
to keep pace with a rapidly increasing human population are bedeviled by erratic climatic …

Plant mutagenesis is rapidly coming of age in the aftermath of recent developments in high‐
resolution molecular and biochemical techniques. By combining the high variation of …

The dissection of gene-trait associations and its translation into practice through plant
breeding is a central aspect of modern plant biology. The identification of genes underlying …

Background Rice is both a food source for a majority of the world's population and an
important model system. Available functional genomics resources include targeted insertion …

Increasing crop yields to ensure food security is a major challenge. Mutagenesis is an
important tool in crop improvement and is free of the regulatory restrictions imposed on …