Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Smart breeding driven by big data, artificial intelligence, and integrated genomic-enviromic prediction

Y Xu, X Zhang, H Li, H Zheng, J Zhang, MS Olsen… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
The first paradigm of plant breeding involves direct selection-based phenotypic observation,
followed by predictive breeding using statistical models for quantitative traits constructed …

Genomic investigation of 18,421 lines reveals the genetic architecture of rice

X Wei, M Chen, Q Zhang, J Gong, J Liu, K Yong… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Understanding how numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) shape phenotypic variation is an
important question in genetics. To address this, we established a permanent population of …

A compressed variance component mixed model for detecting QTNs and QTN-by-environment and QTN-by-QTN interactions in genome-wide association studies

M Li, YW Zhang, ZC Zhang, Y **ang, MH Liu, YH Zhou… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Although genome-wide association studies are widely used to mine genes for quantitative
traits, the effects to be estimated are confounded, and the methodologies for detecting …

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 …

Gene-by-environment interactions in plants: Molecular mechanisms, environmental drivers, and adaptive plasticity

JD Napier, RW Heckman, TE Juenger - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plants demonstrate a broad range of responses to environmental shifts. One of the most
remarkable responses is plasticity, which is the ability of a single plant genotype to produce …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging data from the Genomes-to-Fields Initiative to investigate genotype-by-environment interactions in maize in North America

M Lopez-Cruz, FM Aguate, JD Washburn… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genotype-by-environment (G× E) interactions can significantly affect crop performance and
stability. Investigating G× E requires extensive data sets with diverse cultivars tested over …

Machine learning for predicting phenotype from genotype and environment

T Guo, X Li - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2023 - Elsevier
Predicting phenotype with genomic and environmental information is critically needed and
challenging. Machine learning methods have emerged as powerful tools to make accurate …

[PDF][PDF] Environment-specific genomic prediction ability in maize using environmental covariates depends on environmental similarity to training data

AR Rogers, JB Holland - G3, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Technology advances have made possible the collection of a wealth of genomic,
environmental, and phenotypic data for use in plant breeding. Incorporation of …

Phenotypic plasticity in plant height shaped by interaction between genetic loci and diurnal temperature range

Q Mu, T Guo, X Li, J Yu - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic plasticity is observed widely in plants and often studied with reaction norms for
adult plant or end‐of‐season traits. Uncovering genetic, environmental and developmental …