Breeding crops for drought-affected environments and improved climate resilience

M Cooper, CD Messina - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Breeding climate-resilient crops with improved levels of abiotic and biotic stress resistance
as a response to climate change presents both opportunities and challenges. Applying the …

Active and adaptive plasticity in a changing climate

R Brooker, LK Brown, TS George, RJ Pakeman… - Trends in Plant …, 2022 - cell.com
Better understanding of the mechanistic basis of plant plasticity will enhance efforts to breed
crops resilient to predicted climate change. However, complexity in plasticity's …

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 …

EnvRtype: a software to interplay enviromics and quantitative genomics in agriculture

G Costa-Neto, G Galli, HF Carvalho, J Crossa… - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Envirotyping is an essential technique used to unfold the nongenetic drivers associated with
the phenotypic adaptation of living organisms. Here, we introduce the EnvRtype R package …

Can we harness “enviromics” to accelerate crop improvement by integrating breeding and agronomy?

M Cooper, CD Messina - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The diverse consequences of genotype-by-environment (GxE) interactions determine trait
phenotypes across levels of biological organization for crops, challenging our ambition to …

Modelling selection response in plant-breeding programs using crop models as mechanistic gene-to-phenotype (CGM-G2P) multi-trait link functions

M Cooper, O Powell, KP Voss-Fels, CD Messina… - in silico …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Plant-breeding programs are designed and operated over multiple cycles to systematically
change the genetic makeup of plants to achieve improved trait performance for a Target …

Predicting Genotype× Environment× Management (G× E× M) interactions for the design of crop improvement strategies: integrating breeder, agronomist, and farmer …

M Cooper, CD Messina, T Tang, C Gho… - Plant breeding …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Genotype‐by‐environment‐by‐management (G× E× M) interactions for crop
productivity represent both challenges and opportunities for long‐term crop improvement …

Combining crop growth modeling and statistical genetic modeling to evaluate phenotyping strategies

D Bustos-Korts, MP Boer, M Malosetti… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Genomic prediction of complex traits, say yield, benefits from including information on
correlated component traits. Statistical criteria to decide which yield components to consider …

Two decades of harnessing standing genetic variation for physiological traits to improve drought tolerance in maize

CD Messina, C Gho, GL Hammer… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We review approaches to maize breeding for improved drought tolerance during flowering
and grain filling in the central and western US corn belt and place our findings in the context …

Satellite-enabled enviromics to enhance crop improvement

RT Resende, L Hickey, CH Amaral, LL Peixoto… - Molecular Plant, 2024 - cell.com
Enviromics refers to the characterization of micro-and macroenvironments based on large-
scale environmental datasets. By providing genotypic recommendations with predictive …