Cereals

Multicoloured cotton fields could be on the horizon

- Shaking up the textile industry to create a more sustainable approach to cotton dyeing by developing cotton crops that grow in...

Correction to “Climate Risk Perception and Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Hybrid Rice Technology in Southern Togo”

- ABSTRACTExploring crop climatic yield potential under changing environments provides critical insights for enhancing land productivity and guiding agricultural adaptation. Recent studies demonstrate...

Identification of Potential Genomic Regions and Candidate Genes for Spring Wheat Pre?Harvest Sprouting Resistance Using Multiple Genome?Wide Association Study Models

- ABSTRACTPre?harvest sprouting is a critical constraint limiting stable spring wheat production worldwide. Mining reliable quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for pre?harvest sprouting resistance and...

A systematic review of the drivers, barriers, and impacts of sustainable land management practices adoption among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

- InroductionSustainable Land Management (SLM) practices are increasingly promoted as a means of enhancing rural livelihoods by improving agricultural productivity, increasing farmers’ income,...

Seed security and local crop diversity assessment of three local municipalities of uMgungundlovu, KZN (South Africa)

- Seed security and crop diversification were investigated and proposed as adaptation measures to adverse climate changes, socio-economic hardships, and different environmental shocks. In most cases,...

Miscanthus Leaf Drop Timing Impacts Autumn and Winter Soil Decomposition Rates

- Genotypic variation in Miscanthus leaf senescence was simulated in different leaf drop profiles combined with standardized buried litter bags to estimate impacts on soil decomposition. Litter drop...

The global scientific consensus on genetically modified crop risk assessments

- Volume 17, Issue 1, December 2026.

Single-nucleus RNA-seq and ATAC-seq analyses provide molecular insights into cadmium-stress response in alfalfa roots

06/04/2026 - Soil cadmium (Cd) pollution threatens global food security. Elucidating plant cellular responses to Cd stress is critical for the breeding of low-Cd-accumulating crops. Here, we investigated...

Expanding agroinfiltration host range with broad-spectrum effectors monitored by autoluminescent reporter

06/04/2026 - Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation is a fundamental tool for plant research and molecular pharming, but its application is often limited by host immune responses, post-transcriptional...

Diffuse and regionally structured domestication of the common fig (Ficus carica L.) in the Mediterranean Basin

02/04/2026 - Understanding domestication in perennial crops is crucial for unraveling the evolutionary trajectories that shaped their genetic diversity and for guiding conservation and breeding. The domestication...

Engineering climate-resilient horticultural crops: advances in transcriptional regulation, genome editing, and synthetic networks

02/04/2026 - Abiotic stresses—particularly cold, drought, and salinity—pose significant threats to the productivity and sustainability of horticultural crops. Recent studies have revealed conserved and...

REF1 peptides significantly enhance transformation efficiency but inhibit shoot regeneration in citrus agrobacterium-mediated transformation

07/04/2026 - Agrobacterium-mediated transformation remains challenging for economically important citrus crops because of low transformation and regeneration efficiencies. REGENERATION FACTOR1 (REF1), a plant...

A transposable element-derived regulatory variation in RsOFP2.3 underlies morphological diversification of radish taproots through the conserved OVATE family protein-TONNEAU1-recruiting motif module

07/04/2026 - Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) represents a major root vegetable crop exhibiting remarkable variation in taproot morphology, yet the underlying genetic and molecular mechanisms remain poorly...

Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) facilitates QTL identification of fruit traits

16/04/2026 - Cucurbita moschata, commonly known as pumpkin, is highly valued for its nutritional content, stress tolerance, fruit phenotypic diversity, excellent characteristics of easy-planting and...

Integrating genomic additive relationship matrices improves the efficiency in diploid banana breeding

14/04/2026 - Partitioning of genetic variance into additive and non-additive components using the pedigree-based best linear unbiased prediction (P-BLUP) model is possible because of the family structure and...

The telomere-to-telomere genome and comparative analysis from algae to higher plants reveal origin and evolution of biosynthesis of chlorogenic acid pathway and production in ramie (Boehmeria nivea L.)

16/04/2026 - Chlorogenic acid is an important secondary metabolite in plants, and its antioxidant and antimicrobial activities confers its remarkable medical value. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea), an important fiber...

Envirotyping of abiotic stresses: large spatial and temporal variations across Australian barley production regions

28/07/2026 - Understanding and managing genotype × environment (G × E) interactions remain a major challenge in developing climate-resilient crops. Accurate characterization of the environments experienced by...

Compartment?Specific Functional and Taxonomic Responses of Plant Growth?Promoting Microbiomes Following Oxytetracycline Trunk Injection in Citrus

- ABSTRACTHuanglongbing (HLB), caused by Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, is the most destructive disease affecting citrus production worldwide. Trunk injection of oxytetracycline (OTC) is...

Nitrogen?Starved Wheat: A Multi?Omics Perspective From Epigenome Regulation to Grain Quality

- This review establishes epigenetic regulation, specifically H3K27ac and H3K27me3 dynamics at nitrogen transporter, assimilation, and storage protein loci, as a principal determinant of...

What has population genomics told us about the dynamics of selection and plant adaptation?

17/07/2026 - Population genomics has transformed our understanding of how natural selection shapes plant genomes. The explosion of whole-genome resequencing data has enabled estimates of nucleotide diversity...

A Rare Recombination in the Phytophthora sojae Genome Allows the Redefinition of a Major Avirulence Gene

- Reassessment of the identity of the avirulence gene corresponding to the soybean resistance gene Rps6. From a large natural population of Phytophthora sojae, a rare recombination between two...

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