Key message Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have
led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars …

Drought tolerance involves mechanisms operating at different spatial and temporal scales,
from rapid stomatal closure to maintenance of crop yield. We review how short-term …

Fifteen million farmers in India engaged in Maize cultivation. India would require 45 MMT of
Maize by 2022. But, only 15% of cultivated area of maize is under irrigation and water …

META-R (multi-environment trial analysis in R) is a suite of R scripts linked by a graphical
user interface (GUI) designed in Java language. The objective of META-R is to accurately …

Key message Genomic prediction based on additive genetic effects can accelerate genetic
gain. There are opportunities for further improvement by including non-additive effects that …

Drought is a predominant cause of low yields worldwide. There is an urgent need for more
water efficient cropping systems facing large water consumption of irrigated agriculture and …

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 …

In the past, there have been drought events in different parts of the world, which have
negatively influenced the productivity and production of various crops including wheat …

A key question for climate change adaptation is whether existing cropping systems can
become less sensitive to climate variations. We use a field-level data set on maize and …

More than 200 years have passed since Thomas Malthus, author of 'An essay on the
principle of population'published in 1798, and highlighted 200 years later in Evans (1998) …