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Ingrid Olesen, Hans B. Bentsen, Michael Phillips and Raul W. Ponzoni
The annual production from global aquaculture has increased rapidly from 2.6 million tons or 3.9% of the total supply of fish, shellfish and mollusks in 1970, to 66.7 million tons or 42.2% in 2012, while capture fisheries have more or less leveled out at...
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Peter K. Wahinya, Gilbert M. Jeyaruban, Andrew A. Swan and Julius H. J. van der Werf
Genotype by environment interaction influences the effectiveness of dairy cattle breeding programs in developing countries. This study aimed to investigate the optimization of dairy cattle breeding programs for three different environments within Kenya. ...
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Nitika Sandhu and Arvind Kumar
Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world?s population. Although rice production has doubled in the last 30 years as a result of the development of high-yield, widely adaptable, resource-responsive, semi-dwarf varieties, the threat of a foo...
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Antonio Vallecillos, Emilio María-Dolores, Javier Villa, Juan Manuel Afonso and Eva Armero
In the present work, we studied ten new productive traits in meagre (Argyrosomus regius), comprising three related to the carcass (cNiT) and seven related to morphometric (mNiT) characteristics. We harnessed non-invasive technology (NiT) by means of the ...
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Fatih Demirel, Bünyamin Yildirim, Baris Eren, Serap Demirel, Aras Türkoglu, Kamil Haliloglu, Kamila Nowosad, Henryk Bujak and Jan Bocianowski
Investigating the genetic diversity and population structure of wheat germplasm is crucial for understanding the underlying variability essential for breeding programs and germplasm preservation. This research aims to contribute novel insights with respe...
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Jerzy H. Czembor, Elzbieta Czembor, Marcin Krystek and Juliusz Pukacki
New intensive farming systems have resulted in a narrowing of the genetic diversity used in breeding programs. Breeders are looking for new sources of variation of specific traits to make genetic progress in adaptation to changing environmental condition...
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Carl Pray, Latha Nagarajan, Luping Li, Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, K.N. Selvaraj, Ora Napasintuwong and R. Chandra Babu
In Asia and Africa the poor tend to live in marginal environments where droughts and floods are frequent. Global warming is expected to increase the frequency of these weather-induced perturbations of crop production. Drought tolerance (DT) has been one ...
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Deekshitha Bomireddy, Vinay Sharma, Ramachandran Senthil, Mangala Reddisekhar, Priya Shah, Kuldeep Singh, Devarapalli Mohan Reddy, Palagiri Sudhakar, Bommu Veera Bhaskara Reddy and Manish K. Pandey
Domestication and extensive selection in the development of modern, high-yielding commercial groundnut cultivars have resulted in the selection of an undesirable trait known as in situ germination, which is also referred to as the pre-harvest sprouting o...
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David Bazié, Crépin Ibingou Dibala, Clarisse Pulcherie Kondombo, Mamounata Diao, Kiessoun Konaté, Hemayoro Sama, Adéchola Pierre Polycarpe Kayodé and Mamoudou H. Dicko
(1) Background: Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is a staple food cereal for most of the rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa. In Burkina Faso, a great diversity of sorghum cultivar is cultivated, but its nutritional potential still needs to be a...
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Ana B. Huertas-García, Carlos Guzmán, Facundo Tabbita and Juan B. Alvarez
Wheat is one of the most widely grown crops in the world. One of the traits that defines wheat quality is grain hardness, which is determined by puroindolines (PINA and PINB) proteins encoded with Pina-D1 and Pinb-D1 genes. In this study, the diversity o...
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Santhi Madhavan Samyuktha, Devarajan Malarvizhi, Irulappan Mariyammal, Adhimoolam Karthikeyan, Devina Seram, Manickam Dhasarathan, Sundarrajan Juliet Hepziba, Venugopal Sheela, Arumugam Thanga Hemavathy, Duraisamy Kavithamani, Shanmugam Kavitha and Natesan Senthil
Mungbean (Vigna radiata) is an important short-season legume widely cultivated in Asia, particularly India. It is highly susceptible to bruchids and developing bruchid resistance is an important goal in mungbean breeding programs. In the present study, 5...
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Prince Emmanuel Norman, Asrat Asfaw, Pangirayi Bernard Tongoona, Agyemang Danquah, Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, David De Koeyer and Robert Asiedu
Controlled pollination in root and tuber crops is challenging. Complex ploidy, cross-incompatibility, erratic flowering patterns, outcrossing, etc., limit the efficiency of breeding progress in these crops. Half-sib breeding that involves random pollinat...
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Alin M. Jose, Avuthu Tejaswi, Eswaran Kokiladevi, Niharika Sharma and Kalenahalli Yogendra
Aflatoxins, carcinogenic secondary metabolites produced by the Aspergillus fungi, pose a significant threat to groundnut, making them susceptible to infection and compromising their quality. Despite extensive breeding programs, the need for more durable ...
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Ángel M. Villegas-Fernández, Lucía García, Eleonora Barilli, Nicolas Rispail and Diego Rubiales
Faba bean (Vicia faba) is a temperate grain legume of major importance for food and feed. Powdery mildews are an important group of diseases in many crops, although in faba bean, it is still considered to be of only minor and local relevance. Here, we re...
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Chaoqun Chen, Yao Zhang, Wanjia Tang, Hongxu Chen and Ronggao Gong
The color of sweet cherry fruits is an important indicator of their appearance and quality. That influences the purchasing desires of consumers. We performed a multi-omics analysis of two different colors of sweet cherry fruits (yellow ?Bing Hu? and dark...
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Megan Braga, Susana de Sousa Araújo, Hélia Sales, Rita Pontes and João Nunes
Chestnuts are multipurpose trees that grow mainly in the Northern Hemisphere due to their aptitude for fruit and wood production. These trees are vastly significant for the economy and wildlife. The widespread distribution of these trees demonstrates the...
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Jaime Nolasco Rodríguez-Vázquez, Karim Ammar, Ignacio Solís and Fernando Martínez-Moreno
Effective mitigation of the current threat from yellow rust and the potential threat from stem rust to wheat production in the south of Spain requires the characterization of the lineages/races currently present in the region. Results from this study cle...
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Elisa Zampieri, Michele Pesenti, Fabio Francesco Nocito, Gian Attilio Sacchi and Giampiero Valè
Water-limiting conditions can severely affect rice yield. Therefore, increasing plant tolerance to water stress is a priority for many rice breeding programs. However, improving rice tolerance to this abiotic stress comes with several complications relat...
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Liqiang Song, Ruihui Wang, Xueju Yang, Aimin Zhang and Dongcheng Liu
As one of the essential cereal crops, wheat provides 20% of the calories and proteins consumed by humans. Due to population expansion, dietary shift and climate change, it is challenging for wheat breeders to develop new varieties for meeting wheat produ...
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Roberto Contreras-Díaz,Felipe S. Carevic,Vincenzo Porcile,Mariana Arias-Aburto
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Aims of the study: Phreatophyte species of the Prosopis genus are very important to natural ecosystems in Africa, South America and Asia due to their uses as food and seed sources and in agroforestry. In this research, through next-generation sequencing,...
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