Due to an increase in the consumption of food, feed, fuel and to meet global food security
needs for the rapidly growing human population, there is a necessity to breed high yielding …

With the rapid development of genetic analysis techniques and crop population size,
phenotyping has become the bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Breaking through this …

Tremendous progress has been made with continually expanding genomics technologies to
unravel and understand crop genomes. However, the impact of genomics data on crop …

In crop genetics and breeding research, phenotypic data are collected for each plant
genotype, often in multiple locations and field conditions, in search of the genomic regions …

Connecting genotype to phenotype is a grand challenge of biology. Over the past 50 years,
there have been numerous and powerful advances to meet this challenge, including next …

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 …

Plant breeding is defined as the art and science of changing genetic architecture of plants
for the benefit of mankind and it has been in practice for thousands of years, since the …

A major challenge for crop research in the 21st century is how to predict crop performance
as a function of genetic architecture. Advances in “next generation” DNA sequencing have …

More accurate and precise phenotyping strategies are necessary to empower high-
resolution linkage mapping and genome-wide association studies and for training genomic …

Humankind is facing an unprecedented challenge to produce enough food for the coming
decades because of population growth and increase in the average demand per capita …