Putting the pea in photoPEAriod

With an increasing human population, we are facing the need to grow more food, potentially expanding the environmental tolerances of our staple crops (Godfray et al., 2010; Campbell et al., 2016). The barriers to this include temperature, rainfall, soil type, daylength, and seasonality. In this issue, Williams et al., in their study entitled `The genetic architecture of flowering time changes in pea from wild to crop', advance our understanding of crop adaptation to photoperiod by revealing the genetic basis of photoperiod sensitivity in peas.

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With the growing human population, there is a need to increase food production and expand the environmental adaptability of staple crops. Temperature, rainfall, soil type, daylength, and seasonality are the barriers to achieving this. A study on the genetic basis of photoperiod sensitivity in peas has advanced our understanding of crop adaptation to photoperiod.