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    Reduction in nutritional quality and growing area suitability of common bean under climate change induced drought stress in Africa

    Climate change impacts on food security will involve negative impacts on crop yields, and potentially on the nutritional quality of staple crops. Common bean is the most important grain legume staple crop for ...

    Marijke Hummel, Brendan F. Hallahan, Galina Brychkova in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Hybridity has a greater effect than paternal genome dosage on heterosis in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)

    The phenomenon of heterosis is critical to plant breeding and agricultural productivity. Heterosis occurs when F1 hybrid offspring display quantitative improvements in traits to levels that do not occur in the...

    Brendan F. Hallahan, Eva Fernandez-Tendero, Antoine Fort, Peter Ryder in BMC Plant Biology (2018)