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 …

Plants produce a huge array of metabolites, far more than those produced by most other
organisms. Unraveling this diversity and its underlying genetic variation has attracted …

The term metabolome was coined in 1998, by analogy to genome, transcriptome and
proteome. The first research papers using the terms metabolomics, metabonomics …

Tremendous chemical diversity is the hallmark of plants and is supported by highly complex
biochemical machinery. Plant metabolic enzymes originated and were transferred from …

Here, we aim to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the most significant
outcomes in the literature regarding the origin of Phaseolus genus, the geographical …

Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important horticultural crop and one of the most
widely grown vegetables from the Solanaceae family. It was domesticated from a wild …

Background Legumes are the third largest family of angiosperms and the second most
important crop class. Legume genomes have been shaped by extensive large-scale gene …

The majority of the crops and vegetables of today were domesticated from their wild
progenitors within the past 12 000 years. Considerable research effort has been expended …

Background Apple is an economically important fruit crop. Changes in metabolism
accompanying human-guided evolution can be revealed using a multiomics approach. We …

Our agricultural systems are now in urgent need to secure food for a growing world
population. To meet this challenge, we need a better characterization of plant genetic and …