Mankind, in his quest to improve food quality, has been looking for various forms of crop. Plant breeders and farmers have created new varieties through traditional plant breeding in which the selection and evaluation of the new varieties can take several years to achieve. With the discovery of DNA, a »
The term "dormancy" is frequently used to describe a potato's storability. The dormancy value, often known as the length of dormancy, indicates how long the potato will be stored before sprouting. The growing season or pre-harvest conditions can affect dormancy length along with post-harvest conditions such as temperature »
Cereal grains play a vital role in a healthy diet. One benefit is that they’re great sources of protein, antioxidants, fiber, vitamins, magnesium, iron, folic acid, and minerals. Proteins are very large molecules composed of amino acids. Gluten is a structural protein naturally found in certain cereal grains including »
The present world population of 7.3 billion people is expected to increase to 9.7 billion by 2050. Global food consumption is increasing due to rapid population increase. Furthermore, contemporary challenges to global food security include global climate change, environmental degradation, drought, new illnesses, and saline soils. We need »
Plants and plant parts are not only used for its scent or flavor but also playing an important role in the development of metabolic disorders or therapeutic properties and it affects the quality of life. There are a number of advantages associated with plants and plant phytoconstituents which are proved »
Human depend on plants as primary food resources, not only to gain access to the basic carbohydrates and amino acids but also for a variety of metabolites that we lack the ability to synthesize. Plants are the treasure house for secondary metabolites, of which many have beneficial anti-oxidative capacities for »
Tissue culture, a method of biological research in which fragments of small pieces or tissues from a plant are transferred to an artificial environment in which they can continue to survive and function. It is widely used to produce clones of a plant in a method known as micropropagation. Onion »
The uptake of sulfate by the onion, its reduction to sulfide, and subsequent assimilation into cysteine through light-dependent processes in the plant's leaves are the first steps in flavor precursor production. Glutathione, a cysteine tripeptide, is then produced. This is where the taste precursor biosynthesis pathway begins. The genetics of »
RNA interference (RNAi) is a natural cellular process that regulates gene expression by a highly precise mechanism of sequence-directed gene silencing at the translational stage by degrading certain messenger RNAs or inhibiting translation. By mimicking this natural process of gene regulation RNAi technique has been established for therapeutic application both »
To present, genome-wide approaches to analyzing DNA methylation have yielded a vast amount of information on its general characteristics across the plant genome. Cytosine DNA methylation is a fundamental heritable epigenetic change seen in all major eukaryotic groups and is involved in essential cellular functions such DNA structural integrity, transposable »
Agricultural development in the tropics lags behind development in the temperate latitudes due to the lack of advanced technology, and various biotic and abiotic factors. To cope with the increasing demand for food and other plant-based products, improved crop varieties have to be developed. To breed improved varieties, a better »
