Jaime Prohens

TL;DR: The development of crops tolerant to drought and salt stress is proposed and the domestication of new halophilic crops are proposed to create a ‘saline agriculture’ which will not compete in terms of resources with conventional agriculture.

TL;DR: Advances in genomics are providing breeders with new tools and methodologies that allow a great leap forward in plant breeding, including the ‘superdomestication’ of crops and the genetic dissection and breeding for complex traits.

TL;DR: Ten species in the group to which the common eggplant belongs are delimited and a new species-level nomenclature has been identified as necessary for plant breeders and for the maintenance of accurately named germplasm.

TL;DR: It is hoped that the proposed introgressiomics approach will contribute to the development of a new generation of cultivars with dramatically improved yield and performance that may allow coping with the environmental changes caused by climate change while at the same time contributing to a more efficient and sustainable agriculture.

TL;DR: A more inclusive definition of landraces is proposed, namely that they consist of cultivated varieties that have evolved and may continue evolving, using conventional or modern breeding techniques, in traditional or new agricultural environments within a defined ecogeographical area and under the influence of the local human culture.