The global climate change and unfavourable abiotic and biotic factors are limiting
agricultural productivity and therefore intensifying the challenges for crop scientists to meet …

The major challenges that agriculture is facing in the twenty-first century are increasing
droughts, water scarcity, flooding, poorer soils, and extreme temperatures due to climate …

Plant transformation remains the most sought-after technology for functional genomics and
crop genetic improvement, especially for introducing specific new traits and to modify or …

Climatic conditions significantly affect the maize productivity. Among abiotic factors, nitrogen
(N) fertilizer and temperature are the two important factors which dominantly affect the maize …

Traditional breeding or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have for a long time been
the sole approaches to effectively cope with biotic and abiotic stresses and implement the …

Tremendous advances in crop biotechnology related to the availability of molecular tools
and methods developed for transformation and regeneration of specific plant species have …

The world's population is expected to grow by 30%–35% over the next 60 years. Forecasts
indicate that the world's population will reach almost 10 billion by 2050, with India and China …

Plant breeding has been closely aligned with the development of civilisations and continues
to be important for the supply of nutritious food and a key factor in reducing poverty and …

The search for elite cultivars with better architecture has been a demand by farmers of the
chickpea and lentil crops, which aims to systematize their mechanized planting and …

Demand of flowers is increasing with time worldwide. Floriculture has become one of the
most important commercial trades in agriculture. Although traditional breeding methods like …