Machine learning in plant science and plant breeding

ADJ van Dijk, G Kootstra, W Kruijer, D de Ridder - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Technological developments have revolutionized measurements on plant genotypes and
phenotypes, leading to routine production of large, complex data sets. This has led to …

Accelerating crop genetic gains with genomic selection

KP Voss-Fels, M Cooper, BJ Hayes - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Breeding for drought and heat tolerance in wheat

P Langridge, M Reynolds - Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2021 - Springer
Key message Many approaches have been adopted to enhance the heat and drought
tolerance of wheat with mixed success. An assessment of the relative merits of different …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial cognition for applications in smart agriculture: A comprehensive review

M Pathan, N Patel, H Yagnik, M Shah - Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Agriculture contributes to 6.4% of the entire world's economic production. In at least
nine countries of the world, agriculture is the dominant sector of the economy. Agriculture not …

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 …

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 …

A transfer learning-based artificial intelligence model for leaf disease assessment

V Gautam, NK Trivedi, A Singh, HG Mohamed, ID Noya… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The paddy crop is the most essential and consumable agricultural produce. Leaf disease
impacts the quality and productivity of paddy crops. Therefore, tackling this issue as early as …

Breeding beyond monoculture: Putting the “intercrop” into crops

PM Bourke, JB Evers, P Bijma… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Intercropping is both a well-established and yet novel agricultural practice, depending on
one's perspective. Such perspectives are principally governed by geographic location and …

Tackling G× E× M interactions to close on-farm yield-gaps: creating novel pathways for crop improvement by predicting contributions of genetics and management to …

M Cooper, KP Voss-Fels, CD Messina, T Tang… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Climate change and Genotype-by-Environment-by-Management interactions
together challenge our strategies for crop improvement. Research to advance prediction …

Enviromics in breeding: applications and perspectives on envirotypic-assisted selection

RT Resende, HP Piepho, GJM Rosa… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message We propose the application of enviromics to breeding practice, by which the
similarity among sites assessed on an “omics” scale of environmental attributes drives the …