Alongside the use of fertilizer and chemical control of weeds, pests, and diseases modern
breeding has been very successful in generating cultivars that have increased agricultural …

Over the past century of maize (Zea mays L.) breeding, grain yield progress has been the
result of improvements in several other intrinsic physiological and morphological traits. In …

Context Owing to the interaction between genotype and environment (G x E), identifying
traits to increase wheat yield and grain protein concentration simultaneously or increasing …

While improvement of soybean productivity under a changing climate will be integral to
ensuring sustainable food security, the relative importance of genetic progress attributed to …

Soybean breeding is typically conducted in soils with favourable soil phosphorus yet soil P
levels are typically low in sub-tropical regions. This study was conducted to determine yield …

CONTEXT Most studies assessing the genetic progress in soybean have traditionally
focused on retrospectives approaches, where commercial genotypes released over an …

Phenotypic plasticity (PP) is the ability of an organism to produce multiple phenotypes in
response to environmental changes. In cultivated species, such as maize (Zea mays L.), the …

Crop species undergo artificial selection as a result of domestication under agricultural field
conditions. However, there is limited information on the pattern of how domestication alters …

Understanding the effect of the environment on trait variation is critical for ecologically and
economically important plants. Here, we asked whether differences in soil moisture are a …

It is widely accepted that artificial selection has reduced the overall amount of genetic
variation present for most modern crops, including soybeans. How traits with a complex …