Increasing agricultural productivity via modern breeding strategies is of prime interest to
attain global food security. An array of biotic and abiotic stressors affect productivity as well …

Sustainable agriculture in response to increasing demands for food depends on
development of high-yielding crops with high nutritional value that require minimal …

The growing human population and a changing environment have raised significant
concern for global food security, with the current improvement rate of several important crops …

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket
fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

There are two ways for genetic improvement in classical plant breeding: crossing and
mutation. Plant varieties can also be improved through genetic modification; however, the …

CRISPR/Cas9 is a newly developed and naturally occurred genome editing tool, which is
originally used by bacteria for immune defence. In the past years, it has been quickly …

Conventional plant breeding is the development or improvement of cultivars using
conservative tools for manipulating plant genome within the natural genetic boundaries of …

Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] is one of the important climate-resilient legume crops
for food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa. Ethiopia is believed to harbor high …

Time in breeding programs is a key factor. Shortening plant cycles allows to increase the
efficiency of the programs. The objective of this work is to compare different rapid generation …