Agricultural residues play a pivotal role in meeting the growing energy and bulk chemicals
demand and food security of society. There is global concern about the utilization of fossil …

The breeding of tropical fruit trees for improving fruit traits is complicated, due to the long
juvenile phase, generation cycle, parthenocarpy, polyploidy, polyembryony, heterozygosity …

Pineapple is the most important economic plant in the family Bromeliaceae and the third-
most economically important tropical fruit in the world. It has become an important tropical …

Fruit trees provide essential nutrients to humans by contributing to major agricultural outputs
and economic growth globally. However, major constraints to sustainable agricultural …

The conventional breeding of fruits and fruit trees has led to the improvement of consumer-
driven traits such as fruit size, yield, nutritional properties, aroma and taste, as well as the …

Although pineapple (Ananas comosus var. comosus) shoot tips have been cryopreserved
but the possible effect of this process at the molecular level has not been studied. This …

The worrying and constant increase in the quantities of food and beverage industry by-
products and wastes is one of the main factors contributing to global environmental …

The advent of genome editing has opened new avenues for targeted trait enhancement in
fruit, ornamental, industrial, and all specialty crops. In particular, CRISPR-based editing …

The first genetically modified (GM) crops were planted in the USA in 1996. Since then, 190.4
million hectares of GM crops has been grown in 29 countries (ISAAA 2019). Since the …

Pineapple is a highly valuable tropical fruit crop with significant economic importance. In
pineapple cultivation, several traits could benefit from genetic improvement, such as disease …