Cereals

Cereals

Negative Regulators of Rice Agronomic Traits: Functional Insights and Applications in Genome Editing?Based Breeding
- ABSTRACTRice is the staple crop for more than half of the global population, and improving grain yield, grain quality, and stress resistance remain central goals of modern rice breeding. Among...
A comparative analysis of agricultural and environmental determinants of food availability: implications for sustainable food systems
- Food availability remains a persistent global challenge despite notable progress in recent decades. This article focuses on the availability dimension of food security, proxied by dietary energy...
Unveiling the ecological dividend of smart cities: a multi-period difference-in-differences assessment of urban ecological resilience in China
- Under the dual pressures of climate warming and accelerated urbanization, agricultural ecosystems face severe challenges including shrinking land resources and intensifying non-point source...
Restoration of degraded cropland in the Pearl River Delta, China, through integrated agronomic measures: a modeling approach
- IntroductionGuangdong Province is an important grain and agricultural product production area in China, but part of the cultivated land in the Pearl River Delta has long been faced with complex...
Impact of Climate Change on the Potential Distribution of Macaúba (Acrocomia aculeata, Acrocomia totai, Acrocomia intumescens) in Brazil
- Climate change is projected to drive contrasting responses among Brazilian macaúba palms, ranging from relative stability and expansion to severe suitability loss. Ensemble ecological distribution...
Miscanthus giganteus Biolistic Transformation Using the Visible RUBY Red Marker Gene to Monitor Transformation Efficiency
- Genetic improvements to Miscanthus × giganteus (M×g), a high?yielding perennial C4 bioenergy crop, are constrained by triploid sterility and clonal propagation. An efficient biolistic genetic...
Profile of the Dectes stem borer (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in sunflower and soybean
24/07/2026 - Dectes stem borer, Dectes texanus LeConte, is native to North America and is an economically important pest of sunflower and soybean across the US Dectes stem borer reached the status of an...
FgCot1 Regulates Polarized Growth and Conidiation in Fusarium graminearum via Gpmk1 MAPK and Tsf1 Transcriptional Pathways
- FgCot1 is a nuclear Dbf2?related kinase in Fusarium graminearum. It inhibits activation of the Gpmk1 MAPK pathway and interacts with transcription factor Tsf1 to regulate its nuclear localization....
CfSnt2?CfRpd3?Mediated H3 Deacetylation Governs the ROS?Induced Autophagy and Pathogenicity of Colletotrichum fructicola
- The CfSnt2?CfRpd3?mediated H3 deacetylation negatively regulates ROS?induced autophagy. The CfRpd3 and CfSnt2 undergo down?regulated expression to relieve the inhibition of autophagy. Thus, autophagy...
Puccinia triticina Effector Pt3863 Targets and Subverts TaRLCK176 to Suppress Wheat Resistance to Leaf Rust
- TaRLCK176 is a critical immune hub that positively modulates wheat resistance to leaf rust and is specifically targeted by the Puccinia triticina effector Pt3863. Notably, Pt3863 has evolved a...
Multimodality, interaction modeling, and multimodule architectures in genomic prediction: A unified conceptual framework
- AbstractThe rapid expansion of genomic, environmental, phenomic, and other high?dimensional data sources has transformed genomic prediction in plant breeding. However, the terms multimodal,...
Ethnobotanical and genetic assessments of Central American avocado landraces reveal novel sources of biodiversity and ancient migration patterns
- Avocados are a multibillion?dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production....
Correction to “Overexpression of FBR41 Enhances Resistance to Sphinganine Analog Mycotoxin?Induced Cell Death and Alternaria Stem Canker in Tomato”
- ABSTRACTGrain size is a critical agronomic trait, yet the molecular mechanisms governing its determination in crops remain incompletely understood. While recent studies revealed that OsRING80...
Correction to ‘The genome of Cymbidium sinense revealed the evolution of orchid traits’
- ABSTRACTAdvancements in plant genome sequencing and assembly have enabled the production of increasingly accurate and contiguous genome sequences. Here, we present the chromosome?level assembly of...
The Multi?Omics Opportunity to Improve Heat Adaptation in Chickpea
- ABSTRACTHeat stress during reproductive development is a critical constraint to chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) productivity in major growing regions, where high temperatures cause yield losses through...
Salinity tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): physiological mechanisms, grain quality responses, and advances in integrated breeding and management strategies
- Salinity stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) represents a major challenge for agricultural sustainability, grain quality, and global food security, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions...
China’s potato staple food strategy (2015–2025): a critical review of achievements, constraints, and future pathways
- China launched the Potato Staple Food Strategy in 2015 to reposition potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) from a regional vegetable and subsistence crop to a complementary staple within the national food...
Greenhouse gas emissions from rice crop production in Jiangxi Province (China) based on life cycle assessment and household panel data
- Accurately understanding the current status and driving factors of agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rice crop production in China is crucial for achieving the national “dual...
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Can Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Aerobically Grown Rice Under Water?Limited Conditions
- ABSTRACTRice is a vital staple crop for more than half of the global population, but water limitations threaten its production under flooded conditions. A transition to aerobic production of rice...
Enhanced Rice Yellow Mottle Virus Resistance via CRISPR/Cas9?Targeted Mutagenesis of the Rice eIF(iso)4G Gene
- Using CRISPR/Cas9 to edit the susceptibility gene in rice eIF(iso)4G helped to lower the infection of rice yellow mottle virus in mutated lines of the Indica rice cultivar IR2793?80?01.ABSTRACTRice...