Plant breeding is important to cope with climate change impacts, complementing crop
management and policy interventions to ensure global food production. However, changes …

Key message Many approaches have been adopted to enhance the heat and drought
tolerance of wheat with mixed success. An assessment of the relative merits of different …

Distribution shifts—where the training distribution differs from the test distribution—can
substantially degrade the accuracy of machine learning (ML) systems deployed in the wild …

Asymmetry of investment in crop research leads to knowledge gaps and lost opportunities to
accelerate genetic gain through identifying new sources and combinations of traits and …

Breeding climate-resilient crops with improved levels of abiotic and biotic stress resistance
as a response to climate change presents both opportunities and challenges. Applying the …

Salinity is a key factor limiting agricultural production worldwide. Recent advances in field
phenotyping have enabled the recording of the environmental history and dynamic …

The detection of wheat heads in plant images is an important task for estimating pertinent
wheat traits including head population density and head characteristics such as health, size …

The excellent stretchability and biocompatibility of flexible sensors have inspired an
emerging field of plant wearables, which enable intimate contact with the plants to …

Extreme weather including heat waves and drought episodes are expected to increase in
intensity and duration due to climate change. Wheat, being a major crop is under extreme …

Global food security requires food production to be increased in the coming decades. The
closure of any existing genetic yield gap (Y ig) by genetic improvement could increase crop …