Cereals

The TaCOMT1A?Synthesised Sakuranetin Is a Novel Biostimulant Enhancing Drought Tolerance and Yield in Wheat

- ABSTRACTDrought stress is a major limitation to global wheat production. Here, we demonstrate that the wheat gene TaCOMT1A, encoding a caffeic acid O?methyltransferase, plays a crucial role in...

Grain Expansion in China's Drylands Secures Food but Intensifies Environmental Trade?Offs

05/08/2026 - AbstractDrylands are increasingly crucial for global food supply, and grain cultivation there continues to expand. Newly cultivated croplands in these regions are often assumed to be biophysically...

Scientific assessment of the 2024 post?market environmental monitoring report on the cultivation of genetically modified maize MON 810 in the EU

- AbstractAt the request of the European Commission, EFSA assessed the 2024 post?market environmental monitoring (PMEM) report on the cultivation of genetically modified maize MON 810, which expresses...

Comparative Quality of Garden Strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa Duch. cv. Albion) Produced in Soil and Soilless Sustainable Urban Systems

- ABSTRACTIntroduction/MaterialsModern agriculture faces the challenge of balancing high crop yields with sustainable resource management and nutritional quality. Here, soil and soilless systems...

Cropping systems effect on the agronomic performance of neglected legumes under rainfed conditions

- IntroductionCropping systems are critical in modifying micro-environments, improving land-use efficiency, and enhancing crop adaptability to marginal conditions. However, the interaction between...

Yield Losses and Photosynthetic Damage From Pepper Yellow Mosaic Virus in Sweet Pepper

- Field and greenhouse evaluations revealed severe yield losses caused by a resistance?breaking isolate of pepper yellow mosaic virus on sweet pepper cultivars Heloísa and Dahra R. However, fruit...

Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas

- Wild grapevines (Vitis L.) native to the Americas are ecologically and culturally important plants that are also critical to the global cultivated grape industry as sources of traits for crop...

Response of PIP aquaporins to long-term cold stress in two citrus rootstocks

31/07/2026 - Cold is one of the most impactful abiotic stresses causing significant...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Phylogenetic Analysis of Sweet Potato Feathery Mottle Virus Infecting Ipomoea batatas in Ukrainian Regions (Pilot Study)

- Phylogenetic analysis of Ipomea batatas viruses in Ukraine: Sweet potato feathery mottle virus–12 isolates were described (GenBank accessions PX352962–PX352973).ABSTRACTSweet potato (Ipomoea...

Plants back: Re?envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops

- Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections...

Vertical farming economics: crop performance targets for cost-competitive vertical farming

- Vertical farming may offer a scalable solution to land, water, and climate constraints in agriculture, yet its viability hinges on reducing energy and capital costs. Despite these promises, the...

Ensembling Crop Models and Multi Criteria Analysis to Unlock Bioenergy From Marginal Lands: A Scenario?Based Assessment From Italy

- Multi?Criteria Analysis to identify marginal land on which three crops (Safflower, castor bean, and Ethiopian mustard) were simulated with two process?based models (DSSAT, ARMOSA) under two different...

Genetics of Flooding Tolerance in an F2 Miscanthus sacchariflorus ssp. lutarioriparius × M. sinensis Population

- An experiment to map flooding tolerance in Miscanthus ×giganteus was conducted. Two phenotyping protocols (A and B) and different pipelines to call SNPs were used. TASSEL?GBSv2 resulted in a genetic...

Surveying hosts of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and Leptopilina japonica (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) in non-crop habitat with Master Gardeners in North Carolina

07/07/2026 - Landscape configuration plays a critical role in pest–predator dispersal in agricultural areas. Particularly, the presence of alternative hosts can influence both pest and predator populations. On...

Complete Chloroplast Genome of Indonesian Sugarcane (Saccharum ‘Bululawang’): Comparative, Structural, and Evolutionary Analysis of Photosystem I?Encoding Genes

- ABSTRACTSugarcane is one of the most important crops, providing the majority of global sugar production and serving as a major feedstock for bioenergy. Increasing demands for sustainable sugar...

Glomus iranicum var. Tenuihypharum as a Biofertilizer Modulates Soil Microbial Community Composition and Enhances Soil Carbon Dynamics in Nectarine Cultivation

- ABSTRACTThe development of biofertilization strategies based on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) represents a promising approach to enhance crop productivity and soil health while reducing the...

Field evaluation of spring wheat genotypes reveals differential resistance to Zymoseptoria tritici in Ethiopia

10/07/2026 - Septoria tritici blotch (STB), caused by Zymoseptoria tritici, is a...

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