Harnessing crop wild diversity for climate change adaptation

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

Modern strategies to assess and breed forest tree adaptation to changing climate

AJ Cortés, M Restrepo-Montoya… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Studying the genetics of adaptation to new environments in ecologically and industrially
important tree species is currently a major research line in the fields of plant science and …

A review of breeding objectives, genomic resources, and marker-assisted methods in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

T Assefa, A Assibi Mahama, AV Brown, EKS Cannon… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), one of the most important grain legume crops for
direct human consumption, faces many challenges as a crop. Domesticated from wild …

Root system architecture, physiological and transcriptional traits of soybean (Glycine max L.) in response to water deficit: A review

R ** by sequencing and genome–environment associations in wild common bean predict widespread divergent adaptation to drought
AJ Cortés, MW Blair - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drought will reduce global crop production by> 10% in 2050 substantially worsening global
malnutrition. Breeding for resistance to drought will require accessing crop genetic diversity …

Climate Vulnerability Assessment of the Espeletia Complex on Páramo Sky Islands in the Northern Andes

JB Valencia, J Mesa, JG León, S Madriñán… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Some of the largest impacts of climate change are expected in the environmentally
heterogeneous and species rich high mountain ecosystems. Among those, the Neotropical …

Allelic Diversity at Abiotic Stress Responsive Genes in Relationship to Ecological Drought Indices for Cultivated Tepary Bean, Phaseolus acutifolius A. Gray, and Its …

MA Buitrago-Bitar, AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Some of the major impacts of climate change are expected in regions where drought stress
is already an issue. Grain legumes are generally drought susceptible. However, tepary bean …