Harnessing crop wild diversity for climate change adaptation

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

Modern strategies to assess and breed forest tree adaptation to changing climate

AJ Cortés, M Restrepo-Montoya… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Studying the genetics of adaptation to new environments in ecologically and industrially
important tree species is currently a major research line in the fields of plant science and …

The modern plant breeding triangle: optimizing the use of genomics, phenomics, and enviromics data

J Crossa, R Fritsche-Neto… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Continued increases in genetic gain demonstrate the success of established public and
private plant breeding programs. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, a growing body of …

Translational metabolomics: current challenges and future opportunities

FR Pinu, SA Goldansaz, J Jaine - Metabolites, 2019 - mdpi.com
Metabolomics is one of the latest omics technologies that has been applied successfully in
many areas of life sciences. Despite being relatively new, a plethora of publications over the …

[HTML][HTML] The deployment of intercropping and agroforestry as adaptation to climate change

AJ Burgess, MEC Cano, B Parkes - Crop and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Food security is threatened by the combined pressures of increasing populations and
climate change. Agricultural land is vulnerable to overexploitation and environmental …

Genomic selection for forest tree improvement: Methods, achievements and perspectives

VG Lebedev, TN Lebedeva, AI Chernodubov… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
The breeding of forest trees is only a few decades old, and is a much more complicated,
longer, and expensive endeavor than the breeding of agricultural crops. One breeding cycle …

Lignin engineering in forest trees: from gene discovery to field trials

B De Meester, R Vanholme, T Mota, W Boerjan - Plant Communications, 2022 - cell.com
Wood is an abundant and renewable feedstock for the production of pulp, fuels, and
biobased materials. However, wood is recalcitrant toward deconstruction into cellulose and …

A guide on deep learning for complex trait genomic prediction

M Pérez-Enciso, LM Zingaretti - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool to make accurate predictions from
complex data such as image, text, or video. However, its ability to predict phenotypic values …

Enviromics in breeding: applications and perspectives on envirotypic-assisted selection

RT Resende, HP Piepho, GJM Rosa… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message We propose the application of enviromics to breeding practice, by which the
similarity among sites assessed on an “omics” scale of environmental attributes drives the …

Multi‐trait genomic selection for weevil resistance, growth, and wood quality in Norway spruce

PRN Lenz, S Nadeau, MJ Mottet… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plantation‐grown trees have to cope with an increasing pressure of pest and disease in the
context of climate change, and breeding approaches using genomics may offer efficient and …