Simple Summary Feeding our growing population is one of the primary concerns of plant
breeders. Plant breeding needs to deliver a steady stream of modern cultivars in a time-and …

Key message Genomic prediction based on additive genetic effects can accelerate genetic
gain. There are opportunities for further improvement by including non-additive effects that …

Chickpea is an important leguminous crop with potential to provide dietary proteins to both
humans and animals. It also ameliorates soil nitrogen through biological nitrogen fixation …

This paper introduces AlphaSimR, an R package for stochastic simulations of plant and
animal breeding programs. AlphaSimR is a highly flexible software package able to simulate …

Genetic progress of crop plants is required to face human population growth and guarantee
production stability in increasingly unstable environmental conditions. Breeding is …

Current strategies for phenotyping above-ground biomass in field breeding nurseries
demand significant investment in both time and labor. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can …

Climate change is a major threat to food security in a world of rising crop demand. Although
increases in crop production have previously been achieved through the use of fertilisers …

Forest tree breeding efforts have focused mainly on improving traits of economic importance,
selecting trees suited to new environments or generating trees that are more resilient to …

Key message Genomic prediction models for starch content and chipping quality show
promising results, suggesting that genomic selection is a feasible breeding strategy in …

With the global human population growing rapidly, agricultural production must increase to
meet crop demand. Improving crops through breeding is a sustainable approach to increase …