It has been estimated that agricultural production must be doubled by 2050 in order to meet
the predicted demand of growing world population. Achieving this goal poses a serious …

Highlights•Plant breeding programs operate at a scale much larger than most genetic
studies.•Populations of this magnitude are needed to study functional genomics at a systems …

A major challenge for food production in the coming decades is to meet the food demands of
a growing population (Beddington, 2010). The difficulty of expanding agricultural land, along …

One of the key global challenges of the 21st century is the production of enough food for the
increasing world population. As per some recent reports the global population will continue …

Reliable, automatic, multifunctional, and high-throughput phenotypic technologies are
increasingly considered important tools for rapid advancement of genetic gain in breeding …

Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a method of selecting desirable individuals in a breeding
program based on molecular markers with or without consideration of their trait values. This …

Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the
need to breed high-yielding crops adapted to future climates and the identification of …

The past decade has seen unparalleled advances in our understanding of plant genomes,
and genomic (primarily DNA sequence) information now underpins many aspects of plant …

The sequencing of large and complex genomes of crop species, facilitated by new
sequencing technologies and bioinformatic approaches, has provided new opportunities for …

Agricultural scientists face the dual challenge of breeding input-responsive, widely
adoptable and climate-resilient varieties of crop plants and developing such varieties at a …