Recent advances in sugarcane genomics, physiology, and phenomics for superior agronomic traits

MR Meena, C Appunu, R Arun Kumar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Advances in sugarcane breeding have contributed significantly to improvements in
agronomic traits and crop yield. However, the growing global demand for sugar and biofuel …

Genomic selection in sugarcane: Current status and future prospects

C Mahadevaiah, C Appunu, K Aitken… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane is a C4 and agro-industry-based crop with a high potential for biomass
production. It serves as raw material for the production of sugar, ethanol, and electricity …

Sugarcane breeding: a fantastic past and promising future driven by technology and methods

G Lu, P Liu, Q Wu, S Zhang, P Zhao, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane is the most important sugar and energy crop in the world. During sugarcane
breeding, technology is the requirement and methods are the means. As we know, seed is …

Sub-frontal niches of plankton communities driven by transport and trophic interactions at ocean fronts

I Mangolte, M Lévy, C Haëck, MD Ohman - Biogeosciences, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Observations and theory have suggested that ocean fronts are ecological hotspots,
associated with higher diversity and biomass across many trophic levels. The hypothesis …

Fully efficient, two-stage analysis of multi-environment trials with directional dominance and multi-trait genomic selection

JB Endelman - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2023 - Springer
Key message R/StageWise enables fully efficient, two-stage analysis of multi-environment,
multi-trait datasets for genomic selection, including support for dominance heterosis and …

Integrated approach in genomic selection to accelerate genetic gain in sugarcane

KS Sandhu, A Shiv, G Kaur, MR Meena, AK Raja… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Marker-assisted selection (MAS) has been widely used in the last few decades in plant
breeding programs for the mapping and introgression of genes for economically important …

Combining ability analysis of yield and biomass allocation related traits in newly developed wheat populations

KW Shamuyarira, H Shimelis, S Figlan, V Chaplot - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing biomass allocation to the root system may increase soil-organic carbon stocks
and confer drought adaptation in water-limited environments. Understanding the genetic …

A first look at the ability to use genomic prediction for improving the ratooning ability of sugarcane

MS Islam, K Corak, P McCord… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The sugarcane ratooning ability (RA) is the most important target trait for breeders seeking to
enhance the profitability of sugarcane production by reducing the planting cost …

Strategies to Increase Prediction Accuracy in Genomic Selection of Complex Traits in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

CA Medina, H Kaur, I Ray, LX Yu - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agronomic traits such as biomass yield and abiotic stress tolerance are genetically complex
and challenging to improve through conventional breeding approaches. Genomic selection …

Aerial phenotyping for sugarcane yield and drought tolerance

N Hoffman, A Singels, S Joshi - Field Crops Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Sugarcane breeding is resource-intensive and time-consuming, and could benefit
substantially from the integration of aerial phenotyping (AP) for rapidly identifying genotypes …