Meristems are stem cell-containing structures that produce all plant organs and are therefore
important targets for crop improvement. Developmental regulators control the balance and …

Domestication and the first steps of sunflower breeding date back more than 4000 years. As
an interesting crop to humans, sunflower underwent significant changes in the past to finally …

The development of modern crops typically involves both selection and hybridization, but to
date most studies have focused on the former. In the present study, we explore how both …

Domestication involves changes in various traits of the phenotype in response to human
selection. Diversification may accompany or follow domestication, and results in variants …

The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) genome contains a very large proportion of
transposable elements, especially long terminal repeat retrotransposons. However …

Crop‐wild hybridization occurs in numerous plant species and could alter the genetic
structure and evolutionary dynamics of wild populations. Studying crop‐derived alleles in …

The relationship between variation of the repetitive component of the genome and
domestication in plant species is not fully understood. In previous work, variations in the …

Seed germination and dormancy are tightly regulated by hormone metabolism and signaling
pathway. We investigated the endogenous content of abscisic acid (ABA), its catabolites …

Rasprostranjenost korovskog suncokreta Helianthus annuus na teritoriji Republike Srbije
praćena je tokom više godina pri čemu je evidentirano 200 lokaliteta sa populacijama …

Some results of the studies of plant genetic resources held in the VIR Department of
Genetics are discussed in light of NI Vavilov's theories of natural plant immunity …