Biostimulation and biofortification of crop plants – new challenges for modern agriculture

Biofortification of Crop Plants

Folates in Plants: Research Advances and Progress in Crop Biofortification

Folates, also known as B9 vitamins, serve as donors and acceptors in one-carbon (C1) transfer reactions. The latter are involved in synthesis of many important biomolecules, such as amino acids, nucleic acids and vitamin B5. Folates also play a central role in the methyl cycle that provides one-carbon groups for methylation reactions. The important functions fulfilled by folates make them essen...

Origins of Plant Agriculture and Major Crop Plants

Agriculture is one of the most momentous inventions of humanity. It generated a surplus of food as a consequence of which a sizable fraction of societies were able to engage in economic activities other than agriculture. Thus, agriculture is considered to have been a prerequisite for the development of many civilizations throughout the world. It originated independently and at similar times (ar...

Genetic engineering for modern agriculture: challenges and perspectives.

Abiotic stress conditions such as drought, heat, or salinity cause extensive losses to agricultural production worldwide. Progress in generating transgenic crops with enhanced tolerance to abiotic stresses has nevertheless been slow. The complex field environment with its heterogenic conditions, abiotic stress combinations, and global climatic changes are but a few of the challenges facing mode...

Multifunctional Agriculture: Agriculture Renewal as a Modern Paradigm for Agriculture and Rural Development

Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...