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Salvatore Ceccarelli and Stefania Grando
This review paper addresses the importance of increasing agrobiodiversity to cope with climate change and, at the same time, providing a sufficient amount of healthy food. This is in agreement with the messages from ecology and medicine indicating the ad...
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Huajie Guo, Zhiying Qin, Wei Ren, Hongmei Feng, Wenliang Chen, Longlong Liu and Zhaoxia Sun
As a nutrient-rich multigrain crop, buckwheat is a typical ?medicinal food homology? crop that is rich in flavonoids, including rutin and various vitamins. It has positive anti-oxidant and anti-tumour properties and lowers blood pressure. However, due to...
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Magdalena Pawelkowicz, Bartlomiej Zieniuk, Pawel Staszek and Arkadiusz Przybysz
The availability of genome-sequencing and genome-editing techniques has increased the applicability of innovative solutions, opening up revolutionary prospects for developments in horticultural plant breeding. The Cucurbitaceae family is a group of plant...
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David G. Tork, Neil O. Anderson, Donald L. Wyse and Kevin J. Betts
Flaxseed has gained popularity as a health food. Wild, perennial Linum relatives of annual flax (L. usitatissimum) possess similar oil compositions, making them perennial oilseed (OS) alternatives. The objective of this study was to phenotype 25 OS and 1...
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Rodomiro Ortiz, Fredrik Reslow, Ramesh Vetukuri, M. Rosario García-Gil, Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez and José Crossa
Potato genetic improvement begins with crossing cultivars or breeding clones which often have complementary characteristics for producing heritable variation in segregating offspring, in which phenotypic selection is used thereafter across various vegeta...
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Qian Shi, Wayne R. Simpson, Yuling Li, Chengti Xu, Kejia De and Xiuzhang Li
Elymus dahucirus is an essential plant for ecological restoration in fragile ecological areas and mining area restoration. As lawn grass, it can quickly cover soil and prevent soil erosion, so it is commonly used as a pioneer grass for lawn greening and ...
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Özhan Simsek
This study aimed to assess the susceptibility of three strawberry cultivars (?Festival?, ?Fortuna?, and ?Rubygem?) to drought stress induced by varying polyethylene glycol (PEG) concentrations in the culture medium. Plantlets were cultivated on a solid m...
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Adeeb Rahman and Neeti Sanan-Mishra
Viruses are silent enemies that intrude and take control of the plant cell?s machinery for their own multiplication. Infection by viruses and the resulting damage is still a major challenge in the agriculture sector. Plants have the capability to fight b...
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Isabel P. Pais, Rita Moreira, Ana Rita Coelho, José N. Semedo, Fernando H. Reboredo, José Coutinho, Fernando C. Lidon, Benvindo Maçãs and Paula Scotti-Campos
Changes in the climate have led to the occurrence of extreme events that threaten the production of major crops, namely that of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Waterlogging imposed at the tillering stage can severely affect the yield, but several gen...
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Anita Bo?njak Mihovilovic, Snje?ana Kere?a, Boris Lazarevic, Snje?ana Topolovec Pintaric, Katarina Martinko, Zvjezdana Markovic, Katarina Turkalj and Ivanka Habu? Jercic
In vitro plants that are free of pathogens are crucial for biotechnological breeding methods. The present study investigates the effects of sterilization with sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) and the addition of Plant Preservative Mixture (PPMTM) to the growt...
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