Breeding crops for drought-affected environments and improved climate resilience

M Cooper, CD Messina - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Crop traits and production under drought

V Vadez, A Grondin, K Chenu, A Henry… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Drought limits crop productivity and threatens global food security, with moderate drought
stress—when crops grow at a reduced rate—commonly experienced. Increasing plant …

Accelerated leaf appearance and flowering in maize after four decades of commercial breeding

CL dos Santos, FE Miguez, KA King, A Ruiz… - Crop …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Maize breeding programs have indirectly altered many plant traits; however, our knowledge
of some important phenological traits remains unexplored. One such trait is leaf appearance …

Paving the way towards future‐proofing our crops

A Baekelandt, VLR Saltenis, P Nacry… - Food and Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To meet the increasing global demand for food, feed, fibre and other plant‐derived products,
a steep increase in crop productivity is a scientifically and technically challenging …

Keep in touch: the soil–root hydraulic continuum and its role in drought resistance in crops

P Affortit, MA Ahmed, A Grondin… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Drought is a major threat to food security worldwide. Recently, the root–soil interface has
emerged as a major site of hydraulic resistance during water stress. Here, we review the …

[HTML][HTML] More than 1000 genotypes are required to derive robust relationships between yield, yield stability and physiological parameters: a computational study on …

TC Wang, P Casadebaig, TW Chen - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2023 - Springer
Key message Using in silico experiment in crop model, we identified different physiological
regulations of yield and yield stability, as well as quantify the genotype and environment …

Positive response of maize husk traits for improving heat tolerance during flowering by alleviating husk inside temperature

Y Wang, D Sheng, X Hou, P Zhang, X Liu… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increase in high temperature intensity and occurrence frequency, heat stress has
become the main threat to the production of majority of crops, including maize (Zea mays L.) …

Wheat crop traits conferring high yield potential may also improve yield stability under climate change

T Stella, H Webber, E Eyshi Rezaei, S Asseng… - in silico …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Increasing genetic wheat yield potential is considered by many as critical to increasing
global wheat yields and production, baring major changes in consumption patterns. Climate …

[HTML][HTML] Robotized indoor phenotyping allows genomic prediction of adaptive traits in the field

J Bouidghaghen, L Moreau, K Beauchêne… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Breeding for resilience to climate change requires considering adaptive traits such as plant
architecture, stomatal conductance and growth, beyond the current selection for yield …

[HTML][HTML] PhenoTrack3D: an automatic high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to track maize organs over time

B Daviet, R Fernandez, L Cabrera-Bosquet, C Pradal… - Plant Methods, 2022 - Springer
Background High-throughput phenotyping platforms allow the study of the form and function
of a large number of genotypes subjected to different growing conditions (GxE). A number of …