Simple Summary Many crops including wheat have a narrow genetic base after hundreds of
years of breeding and selection. This makes it difficult to breed new varieties with increased …

Genetic progress of crop plants is required to face human population growth and guarantee
production stability in increasingly unstable environmental conditions. Breeding is …

Abstract Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) are good sources of unexplored genetic diversity that
can assist plant breeders to increase the yield and resilience of their crops. These species …

Elsholtzia stauntonii Benth.(Lamiaceae) is an economically important ornamental, medicinal
and aromatic plant species. To meet the increasing market demand for E. stauntonii, it is …

Intercropping is considered advantageous for many reasons, including increased yield
stability, nutritional value and the provision of various regulating ecosystem services …

Some of the most economically important traits in plant breeding show highly polygenic
inheritance. Genetic variation is a key determinant of the rates of genetic improvement in …

Key message Implementing a collaborative pre-breeding multi-parental population
efficiently identifies promising donor x elite pairs to enrich the flint maize elite germplasm …

Since the introduction of genomic selection in plant breeding, high genetic gains have been
realized in different plant breeding programs. Various methods based on genomic estimated …