World Food Day 2026| Featuring Articles from Molecular Breeding
Published in Sustainability, Plant Science, and Agricultural & Food Science
Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.
Forward-thinking solutions, combined with traditional knowledge and inclusive approaches, can help ensure that everyone has access to sufficient, diverse, safe, and nutritious foods, while safeguarding the planet for future generations.
To mark the occasion, we have selected a collection of reviews published in Molecular Breeding in 2025 and 2026. The collection highlights research that brings together established knowledge and innovative approaches to improve access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food while helping to protect the planet for future generations.
Selected subscription articles are free to read until 31 December 2026.
🌱Food Security and Crop Yield Enhancement
Food security depends on efficient, precise breeding. These reviews highlight advances in genetic improvement and crop optimization that support stable, higher yields.
- Molecular and physiological basis of heterosis in hybrid rice performance
- Insights into engineering flowering time for breeding innovation and strategies to overcome trade-offs
- Sesame improvement: traditional breeding to genomics-assisted breeding
- Genome-enabled breeding of taro and other edible aroids: an evidence-based review
🌿Climate Resilience and Sustainable Agriculture
Climate-resilient crops are essential for sustainable agriculture. These articles highlight innovative strategies to enhance stress tolerance and production stability.
- Breaking the growth-defense trade-off in cereal crops: CRISPR/Cas and moonlighting proteins in biotic stress resistance
- An overview of heat stress in Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.): effects, mechanisms and diverse molecular breeding approaches for enhancing resilience and productivity
- Speed breeding enhances crop resilience and productivity in a changing climate
- The genetic saga of barley leaf rust: evolution, resistance, and breeding innovations
✨Frontier Technologies and Future Food Systems
Frontier technologies, from artificial intelligence to epigenetics, are reshaping agriculture. These articles examine how innovation can advance food security and nutritional quality.
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Genome-informed Wheat Breeding for End-use Quality, Pathogen Invasion and Resilience to Climate Extremes
Aims and Scope
Wheat Molecular Breeding in post-reference genome era
Possible topics of interest include but are not limited to:
· QTL mapping, GWAS and Genomic Selection using well-characterized multi-environment field trials and well-validated biological evidence; · Gene cloning and characterization for important phenotypes related to end-use quality, and biotic and abiotic stresses; · Gene editing and other molecular biology tools to dissect the effects of important genes; · Gene mining and allelic variations in wheat germplasm resourcesPublishing Model: Hybrid
Deadline: Dec 31, 2026
