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African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review (2021)
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The economic potential of African leafy vegetables (ALVs) remains obscured by a poorly developed value chain. This scoping review assembled and examined scattered knowledge generated on ALVs across southern Africa, focusing on production, processing,... Read More about African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review.

Genomic and pedigree?based predictive ability for quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) (2021)
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© 2021, The Author(s). Genetic improvement of quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) through conventional breeding methods has been limited, because tea quality is a difficult and expensive trait to measure. Genomic selection (GS) i... Read More about Genomic and pedigree?based predictive ability for quality traits in tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze).

Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition (2020)
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© Copyright © 2020 Tan, Azam-Ali, Goh, Mustafa, Chai, Ho, Mayes, Mabhaudhi, Azam-Ali and Massawe. Rapid population growth, climate change, intensive monoculture farming, and resource depletion are among the challenges that threaten the increasingly v... Read More about Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition.

An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is the most traded crop among the economically important palm species. Here, we report an extended version genome of E. guineensis that is 1.2 Gb in length,... Read More about An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily.

Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm (2020)
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© 2020, The Author(s). Evaluation of transcriptome data in combination with QTL information has been applied in many crops to study the expression of genes responsible for specific phenotypes. In oil palm, the mesocarp oil extracted from E. oleifera... Read More about Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm.

Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Underutilis... Read More about Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations.

A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system (2020)
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Over the past few decades, several plant species, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon and rice (Oryza sativa), have been adopted as model plants for various aspects of research. These species, especially Arabidopsis, have had vita... Read More about A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system.

Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity (2020)
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Over the past 70 years, the world has witnessed extraordinary growth in crop productivity, enabled by a suite of technological advances, including higher yielding crop varieties, improved farm management, synthetic agrochemicals, and agricultural mec... Read More about Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity.

Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Food and Energy Security published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Applied Biologists In Bambara groundnut [Vigna subterranea (L) Verdc], long photoperiods can cause a decline in pod and seed number. While n... Read More about Photoperiod control of yield and sink capacity in Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) genotypes.

Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm (2020)
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© 2020, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences. The present study searched for candidate genes in five linkage groups (LGs) - T2, T3, OT4, OT6 and T9 hosting the QTLs associated with iodine value (IV) and fatty acid composition (F... Read More about Candidate genes linked to QTL regions associated with fatty acid composition in oil palm.

Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Superior oil yield is always the top priority of the oil palm industry. Short trunk height (THT) and compactness traits have become increasingly important to improve harvesting efficiency sinc... Read More about Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding.

Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango (2020)
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© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. The Rab GTPase family plays a vital role in several plant physiological processes including fruit ripening. Fruit softening during ripening involves trafficking of cell wall polymers and enzymes between cellular compartme... Read More about Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango.

Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage (2020)
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Characterizing the morphological variability in root system architecture (RSA) during the sensitive pre-flowering growth stage is important for crop performance. To assess this variation, eigh... Read More about Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage.

Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins (2020)
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A total of 170 bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) accessions were evaluated using both simple sequence repeat (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers generated using genotyping-by-sequencing (GbS), of which 56 accessions were collec... Read More about Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins.

Bridging the food security gap: an information-led approach to connect dietary nutrition, food composition and crop production (2019)
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© 2019 Society of Chemical Industry BACKGROUND: Food security is recognized as a major global challenge, yet human food-chain systems are inherently not geared towards nutrition, with decisions on crop and cultivar choice not informed by dietary comp... Read More about Bridging the food security gap: an information-led approach to connect dietary nutrition, food composition and crop production.

A practical genome-enabled legitimacy assay for oil palm breeding and seed production (2019)
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Background: Legitimacy in breeding and commercial crop production depends on optimised protocols to ensure purity of crosses and correct field planting of material. In oil palm, the presence of three fruit forms permits these assumptions to be tested... Read More about A practical genome-enabled legitimacy assay for oil palm breeding and seed production.

Bambara groundnut : an exemplar underutilised legume for resilience under climate change (2019)
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World agriculture is currently based on very limited numbers of crops, representing a significant risk to food supplies, particularly in the face of climate change which is expected to increase the frequency of extreme events. Minor and underutilised... Read More about Bambara groundnut : an exemplar underutilised legume for resilience under climate change.

Bambara groundnut: an exemplar underutilised legume for resilience under climate change (2019)
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Main conclusion Bambara groundnut has the potential to be used to contribute more the climate change ready agriculture. The requirement for nitrogen fixing, stress tolerant legumes is clear, particularly in low input agriculture. However, ensuring th... Read More about Bambara groundnut: an exemplar underutilised legume for resilience under climate change.

Crops For the Future (CFF): an overview of research efforts in the adoption of underutilised species (2019)
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Main conclusion Crops For the Future (CFF), as an entity, has established a broad range of research activities to promote the improvement and adoption of currently underutilised crops. Abstract This paper summarises selected research activities at Cr... Read More about Crops For the Future (CFF): an overview of research efforts in the adoption of underutilised species.

Development and interaction between plant architecture and yield-related traits in winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) (2019)
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Winged bean (P. tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) is a leguminous crop that could contribute towards food security in tropical areas, but whose growth and development is still poorly understood. In order to develop improved individuals for increased green pod... Read More about Development and interaction between plant architecture and yield-related traits in winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.).