[HTML][HTML] Machine learning in plant science and plant breeding

ADJ van Dijk, G Kootstra, W Kruijer, D de Ridder - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Technological developments have revolutionized measurements on plant genotypes and
phenotypes, leading to routine production of large, complex data sets. This has led to …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of omics data to unravel root microbiome recruitment

A Zancarini, JA Westerhuis, AK Smilde… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Plant-root microbiome recruitment is driven by genetics and the root
exudate.•Mapping approaches can shed light on the underlying genetics.•Advanced multi …

Deep neural networks with knockoff features identify nonlinear causal relations and estimate effect sizes in complex biological systems

Z Fan, KF Kernan, A Sriram, PV Benos, SW Canna… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Learning the causal structure helps identify risk factors, disease mechanisms,
and candidate therapeutics for complex diseases. However, although complex biological …

[HTML][HTML] From QTLs to adaptation landscapes: using genotype-to-phenotype models to characterize G× E over time

D Bustos-Korts, M Malosetti, K Chenu… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Genotype by environment interaction (G× E) for the target trait, eg yield, is an emerging
property of agricultural systems and results from the interplay between a hierarchy of …

Netgwas: an R package for network-based genome-wide association studies

P Behrouzi, D Arends, EC Wit - arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01236, 2017 - arxiv.org
Graphical models are a powerful tool in modelling and analysing complex biological
associations in high-dimensional data. The R-package netgwas implements the recent …

Dissecting the effect of heat stress on durum wheat under field conditions

EL Groli, E Frascaroli, M Maccaferri, K Ammar… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Heat stress negatively affects wheat production in several ways, mainly by
reducing growth rate, photosynthetic capacity and reducing spike fertility. Modeling stress …

[HTML][HTML] Improving genomic prediction using high-dimensional secondary phenotypes

B Arouisse, TPJM Theeuwen, FA Van Eeuwijk… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past decades, genomic prediction has had a large impact on plant breeding. Given the
current advances of high-throughput phenotyping and sequencing technologies, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on applications of hierarchical gene-to-phenotype (G2P) maps to capture non-stationary effects of alleles in genomic prediction

OM Powell, KP Voss-Fels, DR Jordan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Genomic prediction of complex traits across environments, breeding cycles, and populations
remains a challenge for plant breeding. A potential explanation for this is that underlying non …

Genomic structural equation modelling provides a whole-system approach for the future crop breeding

T He, TT Angessa, CB Hill, XQ Zhang, K Chen… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Using genomic structural equation modelling, this research demonstrates an
efficient way to identify genetically correlating traits and provides an effective proxy for multi …

Elucidating complex biological interactions using computational techniques

Z Fan - 2023 - d-scholarship.pitt.edu
Studying complex biological systems faces numerous technical challenges due to their
intricate nature and the multitude of interacting factors involved while analyzing related …