Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Aflatoxin is considered a “hidden poison” due to its slow and adverse effect on various
biological pathways in humans, particularly among children, in whom it leads to delayed …

Key message Groundnut has entered now in post-genome era enriched with optimum
genomic and genetic resources to facilitate faster trait dissection, gene discovery and …

Cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is a widely grown oilseed crop worldwide;
however, the events leading to its origin and diversification are not fully understood. Here by …

Pod size is a key agronomic trait that greatly determines peanut yield, the regulatory genes
and molecular mechanisms that controlling peanut pod size are still unclear. Here, we used …

Groundnut is an important global food and oil crop that underpins agriculture-dependent
livelihood strategies meeting food, nutrition, and income security. Aflatoxins, pose a major …

The diploid wild cotton species Gossypium australe possesses excellent traits including
resistance to disease and delayed gland morphogenesis, and has been successfully used …

Colonization of land from marine environments was a major transition for biological life on
Earth, and intertidal adaptation was a key evolutionary event in the transition from marine-to …

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea. L) is an important oil crop worldwide. The common testa colours
of peanut varieties are pink or red. But the peanut varieties with dark purple testa have been …

Hemerocallis citrina Borani (huang hua cai in Chinese) is an important horticultural crop
whose flower buds are widely consumed as a delicious vegetable in Asia. Here we …