Cucumber is an economically important crop worldwide, ranking as the third most-produced vegetable after tomatoes and onions. Yet breeding improved varieties—plants that are more resilient, produce ...

Crops leave a legacy in the soil that shapes the next season’s harvest, and the size of that legacy depends on the variety’s genetics. This Perspective proposes breeding for entire rotations rather ...

Installment 7 of Creating a Sustainable Food Future explores improvements in crop breeding that have the potential to boost yields, including marker-assisted breeding, genomics-assisted breeding, and ...

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