Highlights•High throughput phenotyping with genomic association.•Rapidly identifies
candidate genes.•Enables separation of pleiotropy and linkage to overcome …

The potential to add significant value to the rapid advances in plant breeding technologies
associated with statistical whole-genome prediction methods is a new frontier for crop …

New types of phenotyping tools generate large amounts of data on many aspects of plant
physiology and morphology with high spatial and temporal resolution. These new …

Progress in breeding higher-yielding crop plants would be greatly accelerated if the
phenotypic consequences of making changes to the genetic makeup of an organism could …

Progress in crop improvement is limited by the ability to identify favourable combinations of
genotypes (G) and management practices (M) in relevant target environments (E) given the …

Highlights•Phenotyping platforms for measuring plant traits at different scales are
developed.•Need for data storage and analyses introduced the notion of phenotyping …

The first paradigm of plant breeding involves direct selection-based phenotypic observation,
followed by predictive breeding using statistical models for quantitative traits constructed …

Recent advances in genomics technologies have greatly accelerated the progress in both
fundamental plant science and applied breeding research. Concurrently, high‐throughput …

A major challenge for crop research in the 21st century is how to predict crop performance
as a function of genetic architecture. Advances in “next generation” DNA sequencing have …

Two of the most relevant technological innovations that in the last decade have resulted in
significant advances in plant science are the development of next-generation sequencing …