Addressing research bottlenecks to crop productivity

M Reynolds, OK Atkin, M Bennett, M Cooper… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
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 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 …

Control of crop diseases through Integrated Crop Management to deliver climate‐smart farming systems for low‐and high‐input crop production

B Richard, A Qi, BDL Fitt - Plant Pathology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Crop diseases affect crop yield and quality and cause significant losses of total food
production worldwide. With the ever‐increasing world population and decreasing land and …

[HTML][HTML] Crop traits enabling yield gains under more frequent extreme climatic events

H Yan, MT Harrison, K Liu, B Wang, P Feng… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change (CC) in central China will change seasonal patterns of agricultural
production through increasingly frequent extreme climatic events (ECEs). Breeding climate …

A cross‐scale analysis to understand and quantify the effects of photosynthetic enhancement on crop growth and yield across environments

A Wu, J Brider, FA Busch, M Chen… - Plant, Cell & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photosynthetic manipulation provides new opportunities for enhancing crop yield. However,
understanding and quantifying the importance of individual and multiple manipulations on …

Tackling G× E× M interactions to close on-farm yield-gaps: creating novel pathways for crop improvement by predicting contributions of genetics and management to …

M Cooper, KP Voss-Fels, CD Messina, T Tang… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Climate change and Genotype-by-Environment-by-Management interactions
together challenge our strategies for crop improvement. Research to advance prediction …

[HTML][HTML] Process-based greenhouse climate models: Genealogy, current status, and future directions

D Katzin, EJ Van Henten, S Van Mourik - Agricultural Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Process-based greenhouse climate models are valuable tools for the analysis
and design of greenhouse systems. A growing number of greenhouse models are published …

Designing crops for adaptation to the drought and high‐temperature risks anticipated in future climates

GL Hammer, G McLean, E van Oosterom… - Crop …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Climate risks pervade agriculture and generate major consequences on crop production.
We do not know what the next season will be like, let alone the season 30 years hence. Yet …

Radiation use efficiency increased over a century of maize (Zea mays L.) breeding in the US corn belt

CD Messina, J Rotundo, GL Hammer… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In the absence of stress, crop growth depends on the amount of light intercepted by the
canopy and the conversion efficiency [radiation use efficiency (RUE)]. This study tested the …

Accelerating genetic gain in sugarcane breeding using genomic selection

S Yadav, P Jackson, X Wei, EM Ross, K Aitken… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane is a major industrial crop cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the
world. It is the primary source of sugar worldwide, accounting for more than 70% of world …