The intensification of food production via conventional crop breeding alone is inadequate to
cater for global hunger. The development of precise and expeditious high throughput …

Genetic approaches to modify starch in crops have been limited by our knowledge of starch
biosynthesis. Recent advances in Arabidopsis have revealed key genetic components …

Improved agricultural and industrial production organisms are required to meet the future
global food demands and minimize the effects of climate change. A new resource for crop …

Barley is a diploid species with a genome smaller than those of other members of the
Triticeae tribe, making it an attractive model for genetic studies in Triticeae crops. The recent …

Since its introduction in 2000, the TILLING strategy has been widely used in plant research
to create novel genetic diversity. TILLING is based on chemical or physical mutagenesis …

Inbreeding is the crossing of closely related individuals in nature or a plantation or self-
pollinating plants, which produces plants with high homozygosity. This process can reduce …

FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) is one of the best characterized genes in plant research and
is integral to vernalization-dependent flowering time regulation. Yet, despite the abundance …

Crop heat stress is a threat to food supply, with heatwaves expected to increase in frequency
and intensity globally. In addition to yield loss, heat stress dramatically reduces fertility and …

Plant breeding relies on the meiotic recombination or crossing over to generate the new
combinations of the alleles along and among the chromosomes. However, crossing over is …

In flowering plants, successful germinal cell development and meiotic recombination
depend upon a combination of environmental and genetic factors. To gain insights into this …