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Genome-wide comprehensive analysis of miRNAs and their target genes expressed in resistant and susceptible Capsicum annuum genotypes during Phytophthora capsici infection
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Wheat Nutraceutomics: Breeding, Genomics, Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology
Wheat is humanity’s second most important cereal crop, consumed widely in developed and develo** countries and constituting a major source of protein and energy, especially in the develo** world. Wheat gra...
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Worldwide, cucumber fruit is an important part of salads and is consumed for its nutritional qualities. Cucumber breeding programs aim primarily at improving its fruit quality and disease resistance. Tradition...
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Wheat (Triticum spp. L.) is a crucial cereal that contributes to human nutrition globally. Grain quality traits are integral components of a complex food chain, incorporating outputs realisable by breeding, produ...
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Wheat is the second most important staple food crop after rice and is primarily consumed by the global population to meet its daily energy and protein requirements. Hexaploid, i.e. T. aestivum, and tetraploid, i....
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Despite the significant importance of soybean isoflavone, the regulatory mechanism of miRNAs during its biosynthesis is highly unexplored. In the present work, nine existing miRNAs along with their ten corresp...
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Genomic Intervention in Wheat Improvement
Common wheat is the second most important cereal crop after rice worldwide. Hexaploidy nature of wheat genome makes it the model crop for the study of allopolyploid genomes with highly repetitive sequences. Co...
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Small Noncoding RNA-Based Regulation of Plant Immunity
Plant pathogens trigger massive changes in plant gene expression in the host as a result of transcriptional reprogramming. This activates several defense-related pathways such as hormonal imbalances, signal tr...
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Plant small RNAs are important regulators of gene expression involved in epigenetic processes under abiotic and biotic stresses. To minimize the stress influence, specific changes in gene expression are induce...
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Global population is increasing at an alarming rate which is expected to be around 9.2 billion by 2050 from the present 7.2 billion which urges for higher global crop production to feed world hunger. Cereals a...
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Indulgence of heat defense mechanism is crucial to allay undesirable effects by develo** significant heat tolerant plants. Translation of heat stress related genes into proteins is a key tolerance strategy t...
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