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 …

Smart breeding driven by big data, artificial intelligence, and integrated genomic-enviromic prediction

Y Xu, X Zhang, H Li, H Zheng, J Zhang, MS Olsen… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
The first paradigm of plant breeding involves direct selection-based phenotypic observation,
followed by predictive breeding using statistical models for quantitative traits constructed …

Genomic selection in plant breeding: methods, models, and perspectives

J Crossa, P Pérez-Rodríguez, J Cuevas… - Trends in plant …, 2017 - cell.com
Genomic selection (GS) facilitates the rapid selection of superior genotypes and accelerates
the breeding cycle. In this review, we discuss the history, principles, and basis of GS and …

The structure and function of major plant metabolite modifications

S Wang, S Alseekh, AR Fernie, J Luo - Molecular Plant, 2019 - cell.com
Plants produce a myriad of structurally and functionally diverse metabolites that play many
different roles in plant growth and development and in plant response to continually …

Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in arid environments

RK Varshney, C Shi, M Thudi, C Mariac… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Pearl millet [Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone] is a staple food for more than 90 million
farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa, India and South Asia. We report …

Accelerating crop genetic gains with genomic selection

KP Voss-Fels, M Cooper, BJ Hayes - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019 - Springer
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 …

A novel integrated method for large-scale detection, identification, and quantification of widely targeted metabolites: application in the study of rice metabolomics

W Chen, L Gong, Z Guo, W Wang, H Zhang, X Liu, S Yu… - Molecular plant, 2013 - cell.com
Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS)-based metabolomics has been
facilitated by the construction of MS 2 spectral tag (MS2T) library from the total scan ESI …

Genomic architecture of heterosis for yield traits in rice

X Huang, S Yang, J Gong, Q Zhao, Q Feng, Q Zhan… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Increasing grain yield is a long-term goal in crop breeding to meet the demand for global
food security. Heterosis, when a hybrid shows higher performance for a trait than both …

Metabolomics and genomics in natural products research: complementary tools for targeting new chemical entities

LK Caesar, R Montaser, NP Keller… - Natural product reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 2010 to 2021 Organisms in nature have evolved into proficient synthetic chemists,
utilizing specialized enzymatic machinery to biosynthesize an inspiring diversity of …

Genomic selection: genome-wide prediction in plant improvement

ZA Desta, R Ortiz - Trends in plant science, 2014 - cell.com
Association analysis is used to measure relations between markers and quantitative trait loci
(QTL). Their estimation ignores genes with small effects that trigger underpinning …