How do plants defend themselves against pathogens-Biochemical mechanisms and genetic interventions

S Kaur, MK Samota, M Choudhary… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2022 - Springer
In agro-ecosystem, plant pathogens hamper food quality, crop yield, and global food
security. Manipulation of naturally occurring defense mechanisms in host plants is an …

Conventional and molecular techniques from simple breeding to speed breeding in crop plants: recent advances and future outlook

S Ahmar, RA Gill, KH Jung, A Faheem… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

Bulk segregation analysis in the NGS era: a review of its teenage years

Z Li, Y Xu - The Plant Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bulk segregation analysis (BSA) utilizes a strategy of pooling individuals with extreme
phenotypes to conduct economical and rapidly linked marker screening or quantitative trait …

Genomic resources in plant breeding for sustainable agriculture

M Thudi, R Palakurthi, JC Schnable… - Journal of Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Enhancing aphid resistance in horticultural crops: a breeding prospective

L Zhang, C Chen, Y Li, C Suo, W Zhou… - Horticulture …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Increasing agricultural losses caused by insect infestations are a significant problem, so it is
important to generate pest-resistant crop varieties to address this issue. Several reviews …

Crop breeding chips and genotyping platforms: progress, challenges, and perspectives

A Rasheed, Y Hao, X Xia, A Khan, Y Xu, RK Varshney… - Molecular plant, 2017 - cell.com
There is a rapidly rising trend in the development and application of molecular marker
assays for gene mapping and discovery in field crops and trees. Thus far, more than 50 SNP …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci in crops

Y Xu, P Li, Z Yang, C Xu - The Crop Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Dissecting the genetic architecture of complex traits is an ongoing challenge for geneticists.
Two complementary approaches for genetic mapping, linkage mapping and association …

A deep convolutional neural network approach for predicting phenotypes from genotypes

W Ma, Z Qiu, J Song, J Li, Q Cheng, J Zhai, C Ma - Planta, 2018 - Springer
Main conclusion Deep learning is a promising technology to accurately select individuals
with high phenotypic values based on genotypic data. Abstract Genomic selection (GS) is a …