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Catalpa bungei Rootstock Regulates the Growth, soil Environment, and Rhizosphere Microbial Community of Scion/Rootstock Combinations
PurposeTo solve the reproduction problem of Catalpa bungei and promote the development and utilization of its resources, we selected different C....
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Experimental Interspecific Hybrids in Nicotiana and Barriers to Hybridization
The history of interspecific hybridization in Nicotiana is reviewed, starting with the work of Koelreuter who in the eighteenth century produced a...
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Biotechnological approaches to overcome hybridization barriers and use of micropropagation tool for further improvement in Heliconia: a review
Heliconia , also known as ‘False-Bird-of-Paradise’, is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family of Heliconiaceae.The genus contains 250–300...
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Improved Propagation Techniques in Temperate Nuts
In simple terms, plant propagation can be defined as reproduction or multiplication of plants. Various procedures of plant propagation need to be...
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Malus Species: Germplasm Conservation and Utilization
Malus species is important not only from the point of economics but also from a cultural and nutritional point of view. Most of the Malus species are...
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Malus Species: Germplasm Conservation and Utilization
Malus species is important not only from the point of economics but also from a cultural and nutritional point of view. Most of the Malus species are...
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Diseases of Etrog Citron and Other Citrus Trees
Citrus fruits, consumed both fresh and as juice concentrate, are responsible for the world’s largest fruit tree industries. Among the cultivated...
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Grafting vegetable crops to manage plant-parasitic nematodes: a review
Vegetables constitute 12% of world agricultural produce. Solanaceous and cucurbitaceous crops constitute the major share of vegetable production, but...
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Gene editing in tree and clonal crops: progress and challenges
Because of the limitations inherent in conventional breeding of trees and clonally propagated crops, gene editing is of great interest. Dozens of...
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Xenotransplantation becoming reality
To bridge the gap between organ demand and supply, xenotransplantation has long been considered as a realistic option for end-stage organ failure....
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Breeding and genetics of disease resistance in temperate fruit trees: challenges and new opportunities
Climate change, large monocultures of disease-susceptible cultivars, overuse of pesticides, and the emergence of new pathogens or pathogenic strains...
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Conservation and Use of Temperate Fruit and Nut Genetic Resources
Temperate fruit and nut species come from locations with cold winters and well-defined climatic seasons and temperatures suitable for spring and...
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Biotechnological Innovations in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Development—Current Scenario and Future Perspectives
Transgenic plants are genetically engineered crops having desirable traits, which are stable and often pass to the progeny. The wild varieties grown...
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Polyembryony: A Potential Horticultural Trait, Reveals Complex Mechanism, Role of Molecular Markers and their Application in Fruit Crops
Rootstocks/scions with potential for commercial growing, either for the industry or fresh market, have been one of the main objectives of the fruit...
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Genetics, Breeding, and Genomics of Apple Rootstocks
The ability to graft genetically diverse apple cultivars onto diverse root systems (rootstocks) has increased the breeding efficiency of the whole...
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Conservation and Use of Temperate Fruit and Nut Genetic Resources
Temperate fruit and nut species come from locations with cold winters and well-defined climatic seasons and temperatures suitable for spring and...
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Diseases of Black Pepper and Cardamom
Among the spice crops cultivated in India, black pepper (Piper nigrum) and cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) can be considered as important ones....
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Evolution of almond genetic diversity and farmer practices in Lebanon: impacts of the diffusion of a graft-propagated cultivar in a traditional system based on seed-propagation
BackgroundUnder cultivation, many outcrossing fruit tree species have switched from sexual reproduction to vegetative propagation. Traditional...
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Random mutagenesis in vegetatively propagated crops: opportunities, challenges and genome editing prospects
In order to meet the growing human food and nutrition demand a perpetual process of crop improvement is idealized. It has seen changing trends and...
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Recent advances in argan propagation: a review
Key messageThis paper summarizes recent findings on argan propagation through conventional and tissue culture techniques and outlines the advantages...
