Beat the stress: breeding for climate resilience in maize for the tropical rainfed environments

BM Prasanna, JE Cairns, PH Zaidi, Y Beyene… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Impacts of salinity stress on crop plants: Improving salt tolerance through genetic and molecular dissection

K Atta, S Mondal, S Gorai, AP Singh, A Kumari… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Improper use of water resources in irrigation that contain a significant amount of salts, faulty
agronomic practices such as improper fertilization, climate change etc. are gradually …

Genomic Selection in the Era of Next Generation Sequencing for Complex Traits in Plant Breeding

JA Bhat, S Ali, RK Salgotra, ZA Mir, S Dutta… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Genomic selection (GS) is a promising approach exploiting molecular genetic markers to
design novel breeding programs and to develop new markers-based models for genetic …

Molecular breeding for nutritionally enriched maize: status and prospects

BM Prasanna, N Palacios-Rojas, F Hossain… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Maize is a major source of food security and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA), Latin America, and the Caribbean, and is among the top three cereal crops in Asia …

Enhancing genetic gain in the era of molecular breeding

Y Xu, P Li, C Zou, Y Lu, C Xie, X Zhang… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
As one of the important concepts in conventional quantitative genetics and breeding, genetic
gain can be defined as the amount of increase in performance that is achieved annually …

[HTML][HTML] Breeding schemes for the implementation of genomic selection in wheat (Triticum spp.)

FM Bassi, AR Bentley, G Charmet, R Ortiz, J Crossa - Plant Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In the last decade the breeding technology referred to as 'genomic selection'(GS) has been
implemented in a variety of species, with particular success in animal breeding. Recent …

Genome-wide prediction models that incorporate de novo GWAS are a powerful new tool for tropical rice improvement

JE Spindel, H Begum, D Akdemir, B Collard, E Redoña… - Heredity, 2016 - nature.com
To address the multiple challenges to food security posed by global climate change,
population growth and rising incomes, plant breeders are developing new crop varieties that …

Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of F3:6 Nebraska Winter Wheat Genotypes Using Genotyping-By-Sequencing

S Eltaher, A Sallam, V Belamkar, HA Emara… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The availability of information on the genetic diversity and population structure in wheat
(Triticum aestivum L.) breeding lines will help wheat breeders to better use their genetic …

Enhancing genetic gain through genomic selection: from livestock to plants

Y Xu, X Liu, J Fu, H Wang, J Wang, C Huang… - Plant …, 2020 - cell.com
Although long-term genetic gain has been achieved through increasing use of modern
breeding methods and technologies, the rate of genetic gain needs to be accelerated to …

Designing mixtures of varieties for multifunctional agriculture with the help of ecology. A review

S Barot, V Allard, A Cantarel, J Enjalbert… - Agronomy for …, 2017 - Springer
The study of natural ecosystems and experiments using mixtures of plant species
demonstrates that both species and genetic diversity generally promote ecosystem …