Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest
control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area …

In this review, recent developments and future prospects of obtaining a better understanding
of the regulation of nitrogen use efficiency in the main crop species cultivated in the world …

To investigate N metabolism of two contrasting Populus species in acclimation to low N
availability, saplings of slow-growing species (Populus popularis, Pp) and a fast-growing …

This paper describes the current state of international plant breeding research and explains
why the centralized global approach to germplasm improvement that was so successful in …

Maize crop production is constrained worldwide by nitrogen (N) availability and particularly
in poor tropical and subtropical soils. The development of affordable high-throughput crop …

Abstract Participatory Crop Improvement (PCI) has developed over the past decade as an
alternative and complementary breeding approach to Formal Crop Improvement (FCI). In …

Identification of rootstocks capable of improving the nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) of the
scion could reduce N fertilization and nitrate leaching; however, screening different graft …

Two experiments were conducted to study the effect of grafting on nitrogen‐use efficiency
(NUE) in mini‐watermelon plants. In the first study, mini‐watermelon plants (Citrullus lanatus …

Breeding high-yielding and nutrient-efficient cultivars is one strategy to simultaneously
resolve the problems of food security, resource shortage, and environmental pollution …

Current farmers' breeding goes beyond the gradual selection in landraces, and includes
development and maintenance of major new farmers' varieties that are increasingly uniform …