Societal Impact Statement Biodiversity is essential to food security and nutrition locally and
globally. By reviewing the global state of edible plants and highlighting key neglected and …

The pangenome provides genomic variations in the cultivated gene pool for a given species.
However, as the crop's gene pool comprises many species, especially wild relatives with …

The wild relatives of domesticated crops possess genetic diversity useful for developing
more productive, nutritious and resilient crop varieties. However, their conservation status …

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is an established model for studying fruit biology; however,
most studies of tomato fruit growth and ripening are based on homogenized pericarp, and …

Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Plant breeders require access to new genetic diversity to satisfy the demands of a growing
human population for more food that can be produced in a variable or changing climate and …

Controlling the rate of softening to extend shelf life was a key target for researchers
engineering genetically modified (GM) tomatoes in the 1990s, but only modest …

Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

The main objective of the “Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change” project is to collect and
protect the genetic diversity of a portfolio of plants with the characteristics required for …