Cereals

Which indicators are most effective at detecting rapid shifts in soil health?

- AbstractFarmers are showing a growing interest in soil health. Therefore, it is necessary to understand how and when indicators respond to changes in land management. Measurements of soil carbon (C)...

Correction to “Machine learning?based prediction of cereal rye cover crop biomass across diverse agroecosystems”

- AbstractImproving nitrogen (N) efficiency is essential for sustainable high?biomass sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) production. This study evaluated leaf and stem N dynamics, canopy N...

High yield production of the antifungal proteins PeAfpA and PdAfpB by vacuole targeting in a TMV?based expression vector

- SummaryAntifungal proteins (AFPs) derived from filamentous fungi show great potential against economically significant fungi that cause plant diseases and consequently threat food safety and...

Haploid Mutation Mapping Identifies a Homoeologous Non?Reciprocal Translocation Linked to Reduced Fibre and Enhanced Protein in Brassica napus

- ABSTRACTA key challenge for the genetic improvement of canola (Brassica napus), one of the world's most important oilseeds, is the limited natural variation for commercially important traits. The...

The C2H2?GGAT Regulatory Module Fine?Tunes Glutamate Homeostasis to Improve Fruit Flavour and Enhance Disease Resistance in Peach

- ABSTRACTFree amino acids (FAAs) play a fundamental role in determining fruit quality and stress adaptation, yet their genetic regulation remains poorly understood. Through an integrated approach...

A Single?Base Mutation in TaWAK3?B Reduces Plant Height via Cytoskeleton in Bread Wheat

- ABSTRACTIntroduction of Reduced height (Rht) genes into modern wheat cultivars has resulted in ‘Green Revolution’ that skyrocketed wheat grain yields worldwide since the 1960s. These ‘Green...

Harnessing Bulk?Segregant Mapping to Identify Trait?Associated Genes in the Allopolyploid Model Plant Nicotiana benthamiana

- ABSTRACTForward genetics has been instrumental in identifying genes underlying desirable traits, yet its application to polyploid plants, many of which are key agricultural crops, remains challenging...

S2?PepAnalyst: A Web Tool for Predicting Plant Small Signalling Peptides

- ABSTRACTSmall signalling peptides (SSPs) serve as crucial mediators of cell?to?cell communication in plants, orchestrating diverse physiological processes from development to stress responses. While...

Genetic Basis of UV Bullseye Size Variations in Turnip Rape (Brassica rapa subsp. oleifera)

- ABSTRACTFloral ultraviolet (UV) patterns are visible to bee pollinators and can affect crop yields by impacting pollinator visitation. However, the mechanisms underlying the intraspecific variations...

Transcription Profiling of Potato Leaves in Response to Heat Stress at Single?Cell Resolution

- ABSTRACTPotato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is a globally important food crop with considerable nutritional and economic value. Heat stress significantly inhibits potato plant growth and tuber development,...

Alpha, beta and gamma diversity in relatively natural, mixed and transformed landscape scenarios

- Biodiversity losses and biotic homogenisation associated with human?induced land?cover changes are key issues for ecology. However, the effects of human?caused land?use changes on biodiversity change...

Exogenous Dopamine Promotes Tolerance in Rice Under Iron Excess by Improving Root Anatomy, Ionic Balance, Photosynthetic Performance, and Biomass

- Exogenous dopamine is a molecule capable of minimizing the effects caused by Fe excess in rice plants, protecting the root anatomy and photosynthetic apparatus, promoting antioxidant defense, and...

Rural prosperity: the key to sustainable farm and food systems

- We highlight the tension in food systems between affordable food for all and prosperity of the rural communities that produce most of that food. Over the past six decades, global efforts to combat...

Chilean wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) landraces with greater biomass, yield stability, and intrinsic WUE than modern varieties are an opportunity for adaptation to severe drought areas

- In Mediterranean environments, wheat often faces water scarcity during grain filling. The spike growth period may also be affected under severe drought conditions, which are becoming increasingly...

Rice and food security amidst agricultural transformation in the highlands of northern Thailand

- Transformation of the highlands of northern Thailand holds lessons for agricultural development in other parts of the world, especially for the agroecosystems that sustain local populations while...

Use of an enhanced cultivar calibration framework for DSSAT to examine effects of ecotype and time-series data

30/01/2026 - Process-based crop modelling platforms such as DSSAT are potentially valuable tools for crop breeding programmes, with the capacity to predict genotype-by-environment-by-management interactions....

Spatial heterogeneity of disease infection attributable to neighbour genotypic identity in barley cultivars

18/12/2025 - Pest damage exhibits considerable spatial heterogeneity among individual plots in the field. Such spatial heterogeneity has often been treated as a nuisance in crop breeding trials; however, a part...

Wheat Yield Response to Organic Fertilisers Depends on Drought Timing in a Sandy Soil

- ?ABSTRACTOrganic fertilisers enhance crop drought resilience by improving nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) use efficiency and soil?plant water relations. However, the underlying mechanisms governing...

Pepino Mosaic Virus: A Globally Important Tomato Pathogen and a Rising Model in Molecular Virology

- Pepino mosaic virus (PepMV) is a globally important tomato pathogen causing fruit quality losses. It comprises multiple genetic types and spreads via seed and mechanical contact. Lacking resistant...

Skim?sequencing for genomic selection in wheat: a comparison of marker platforms

- AbstractThe promise of genomics?assisted breeding relies on efficient, affordable, and abundant molecular markers. Leveraging modern sequencing technology, commercial laboratory products, and...

Identification of stripe rust adult plant resistance genes in the hard winter wheat cultivar Baker's Ann

- AbstractStripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, is among the most destructive wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) diseases. Identifying resistance genes is crucial for the development of...

Visualitzar més novetats