Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Status and prospects of genome‐wide association studies in plants

L Tibbs Cortes, Z Zhang, J Yu - The plant genome, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) have developed into a powerful and ubiquitous
tool for the investigation of complex traits. In large part, this was fueled by advances in …

Fast-forward breeding for a food-secure world

RK Varshney, A Bohra, M Roorkiwal, R Barmukh… - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Crop production systems need to expand their outputs sustainably to feed a burgeoning
human population. Advances in genome sequencing technologies combined with efficient …

Machine learning applications to improve flavor and nutritional content of horticultural crops through breeding and genetics

LFV Ferrão, R Dhakal, R Dias, D Tieman… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•AI can aid the improvement of flavor and nutrition in horticultural
crops.•Development of new AI/statistical methods target inference and prediction …

[HTML][HTML] Use of multiple 'omics techniques to accelerate the breeding of abiotic stress tolerant crops

MC Derbyshire, J Batley, D Edwards - Current Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Crop production can be severely limited by adverse environmental conditions such as
drought, extreme heat, and frost. As climate change intensifies, weather patterns are …

Multi-omics revolution to promote plant breeding efficiency

U Mahmood, X Li, Y Fan, W Chang, Y Niu, J Li… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Crop production is the primary goal of agricultural activities, which is always taken into
consideration. However, global agricultural systems are coming under increasing pressure …

Multi-omics analysis dissects the genetic architecture of seed coat content in Brassica napus

Y Zhang, H Zhang, H Zhao, Y Xia, X Zheng, R Fan… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Brassica napus is an important vegetable oil source worldwide. Seed coat
content is a complex quantitative trait that negatively correlates with the seed oil content in B …

Machine learning-enabled phenotyping for GWAS and TWAS of WUE traits in 869 field-grown sorghum accessions

JN Ferguson, SB Fernandes, B Monier… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a model C4 crop made experimentally tractable by extensive
genomic and genetic resources. Biomass sorghum is studied as a feedstock for biofuel and …

Transcriptome-based prediction of complex traits in maize

CB Azodi, J Pardo, R VanBuren… - The Plant …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The ability to predict traits from genome-wide sequence information (ie, genomic prediction)
has improved our understanding of the genetic basis of complex traits and transformed …

Improving C4 photosynthesis to increase productivity under optimal and suboptimal conditions

CRG Sales, Y Wang, JB Evers… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Although improving photosynthetic efficiency is widely recognized as an underutilized
strategy to increase crop yields, research in this area is strongly biased towards species with …