A key concern in agriculture is how to feed the expanding population and safeguard the
environment from the ill effects of climate change. To feed a growing global population, food …

The renewed focus on cereal landraces is a response to some negative consequences of
modern agriculture and conventional breeding which led to a reduction of genetic diversity …

Advances in molecular biology including genomics, high-throughput sequencing, and
genome editing enable increasingly faster and more precise cultivar development …

The genomic revolution of the past decade has greatly improved our understanding of the
genetic make-up of living organisms. The sequencing of crop genomes has completely …

Rice is a staple and most important security food crop consumed by almost half of the
world's population. More rice production is needed due to the rapid population growth in the …

Bacterial blight, blast, and sheath blight are the commonest diseases causing substantial
yield loss in rice around the world. Stacking of broad-spectrum resistance genes/QTLs into …

Bacterial blight (BB) and fungal blast diseases are the major biotic constraints that limit rice
productivity. To sustain yield improvement in rice, it is necessary to developed yield potential …

Two major bacterial blight (BB) resistance genes (Xa21 and xa13) and a major gene for
blast resistance (Pi54) were introgressed into an Indian rice variety MTU1010 through …

Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV) is one of the most harmful afflictions in the world that
affects tomato growth and production. Six regular antagonistic genes (Ty-1, Ty-2, Ty-3, Ty-4 …

Understanding of genetic diversity is important to explore existing gene in any crop breeding
program. Most of the diversity preserved in the landraces which are well–known reservoirs …