ReviewPlanta2019
Orphan crops: their importance and the urgency of improvement.
Review in Planta, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Mapping the characterization landscape ofFrontiers in plant science · 2026Pooled it
- Mainstreaming orphan millets for advancing climate smart agriculture to secure nutrition and health.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Pooled it
- Consumer Acceptability and Community Perceptions of Indigenous Crop-Enriched Stiff Pap in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Implications for Sustainable Food System Transformation.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Scaling up orphan crop research: genebank genetics highlight geographic structure in cultivated cowpea from 10 617 global accessions.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2026Article
- Bioinformatics in crop research: using genomic data for crop improvement.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Virus-mediated, heritable gene editing in groundcherry (Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- The effect of drought on physiological and agronomic traits of tef [Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Genomic advances in orphan and underutilized Brassicaceae crops and their wild relatives.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Comprehensive Review on Bulla: Uses and Nutritional, Cultural, and Processing Perspectives of an Enset-Derived Food in Ethiopia.International journal of food science · 2026Review
- Research and developmental strategies to hasten the improvement of orphan crops.GM crops & food · 2025Review
- Modelling the productivity of opportunity crops across Africa under climate change in support of the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils.Nature plants · 2025Article
- Toward improving multiomic research in understudied cereals.Nature genetics · 2025Review
- Plant-derived vesicle-like nanoparticles in food crops: emerging insights into nutritional biofortification and biomedical applications.Plant biotechnology journal · 2025Review
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- Assessing and mining grain amaranth diversity for sustainable cropping systems.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2025Review
- Enhancing food and nutrition security in Himalayan foothills with neglected and underutilized millets.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Application of machine learning and genomics for orphan crop improvement.Nature communications · 2025Review
- Genetic mapping for agronomic, nutritional, and leaf vein traits in the indigenous cropNPJ sustainable agriculture · 2025Article
- From 'Farm to Fork': Exploring the Potential of Nutrient-Rich and Stress-Resilient Emergent Crops for Sustainable and Healthy Food in the Mediterranean Region in the Face of Climate Change Challenges.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Seed priming with gas plasma-activated water in Ethiopia's "orphan" crop tef (Eragrostis tef).Planta · 2024Article
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Abstract
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conclusionDue to significant contributions of orphan crops in the economy of the developing world, scientific studies need to be promoted on these little researched but vital crops of smallholder farmers and consumers. Food security is the main challenge in the developing world, particularly in the least developed countries. Orphan crops play a vital role in the food security and livelihood of resource-poor farmers and consumers in these countries. Like major crops, there are members of all food types-cereals, legumes, vegetables and root and tuber crops, that are considered to be orphan crops. Despite their huge importance for present and future agriculture, orphan crops have generally received little attention by the global scientific community. Due to this, they produce inferior yields in terms of both quantity and quality. The major bottlenecks affecting the productivity of these crops are little or no selection of improved genetic traits, extreme environmental conditions and unfavorable policy. However, some orphan crops have recently received the attention of the global and national scientific community where advanced research and development initiatives have been launched. These initiatives which implement a variety of genetic and genomic tools targeted major constraints affecting productivity and/or nutritional quality of orphan crops. In this paper, some of these initiatives are briefly described. Here, I provide key suggestions to relevant stakeholders regarding improvement of orphan crops. Concerted efforts are urgently needed to advance the research and development of both the major and orphan crops so that food security will be achieved and ultimately the livelihood of the population will be improved.
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