Societal Impact Statement Biodiversity is essential to food security and nutrition locally and
globally. By reviewing the global state of edible plants and highlighting key neglected and …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Soybean (Glycine max), as an economically important food and oilseedcrop, is a major
source of plant proteins and oils. Although considerable progress has been made in …

The nature of domestication is often misunderstood. Most definitions of the process are
anthropocentric and center on human intentionality, which minimizes the role of …

Current food systems are challenged by relying on a few input-intensive, staple crops. The
prioritization of yield and the loss of diversity during the recent history of domestication has …

The pangenome provides genomic variations in the cultivated gene pool for a given species.
However, as the crop's gene pool comprises many species, especially wild relatives with …

The microbial communities inhabiting the root interior of healthy plants, as well as the
rhizosphere, which consists of soil particles firmly attached to roots, engage in symbiotic …

Some of the World's most valuable crops, including watermelon, honey melon, cucumber,
squash, zucchini and pumpkin, belong to the family Cucurbitaceae. We review insights on …

The emergence of apomixis—the transition from sexual to asexual reproduction—is a
prominent feature of modern citrus. Here we de novo sequenced and comprehensively …