Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the most studied plant viral pathogens
because it is the most damaging virus for global tomato production. In order to combat this …

Evolutionary processes have evolved plants to cope with several different natural stresses.
Basic physiological activities of crop plants are significantly harmed by these stresses …

In recent years, non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have gained unprecedented attention as new
and crucial players in the regulation of numerous cellular processes and disease responses …

Wheat stripe rust (yellow rust) caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) is a serious
biotic stress factor limiting wheat production worldwide. Emerging evidence demonstrates …

Viruses are obligate pathogens that cause a wide range of diseases across all kingdoms of
life. They have a colossal impact on the economy and healthcare infrastructure world-wide …

Food security is affected by climate change, population growth, as well as abiotic and biotic
stresses. Conventional and molecular marker assisted breeding and genetic engineering …

The modern-day cultivated and highly consumed tomato has come a long way from its
ancestor (s), which were in the wild and not palatable. Breeding strategies made the …

In higher plants, flower development is a result of crosstalk between many factors like
photoperiod, vernalization, hormone concentration, epigenetic modification etc. and is also …

Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) belong to the regulatory class of non-coding RNAs,
usually non-protein-coding with more than 200-nucleotide long transcripts. These lncRNAs …

With the advent of transcriptomic techniques involving single-stranded RNA sequencing and
chromatin isolation by RNA purification-based sequencing, transcriptomic studies of coding …