Improving crops yield under water-limited conditions is the most daunting challenge faced
by breeders. To this end, accurate, relevant phenotyping plays an increasingly pivotal role …

Drought is one of the most serious production constraint for world agriculture and is
projected to worsen with anticipated climate change. Inter-disciplinary scientists have been …

The development of germplasm adapted to changing climate is required to ensure food
security,. Genomic prediction is a powerful tool to evaluate many genotypes but performs …

Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) is an important phenomenon in plant breeding.
This paper presents a series of models for describing, exploring, understanding, and …

The need to accelerate breeding for increased yield potential and better adaptation to
drought and other abiotic stresses is an issue of increasing urgency. As the population …

Genomic selection incorporates all the available marker information into a model to predict
genetic values of breeding progenies for selection. The objective of this study was to …

Abiotic stress is one of the primary causes of crop losses worldwide. Much progress has
been made in unraveling the complex stress response mechanisms, particularly in the …

Introduction-why breed for drought and low N tolerance?; Conceptual framework-breeding;
Conventional approaches to improving the drought and low N tolerance of maize; …

Significant yield losses in maize (Zea mays L.) from drought are expected to increase with
global climate change as temperatures rise and rainfall distribution changes in key …

Drought stress has severely hampered maize production, affecting the livelihood and
economics of millions of people worldwide. In the future, as a result of climate change …