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 …

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 …

Changes in the drought sensitivity of US maize yields

DB Lobell, JM Deines, SD Tommaso - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
As climate change leads to increased frequency and severity of drought in many agricultural
regions, a prominent adaptation goal is to reduce the drought sensitivity of crop yields. Yet …

Integrating genetic gain and gap analysis to predict improvements in crop productivity

M Cooper, T Tang, C Gho, T Hart, G Hammer… - Crop …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A Crop Growth Model (CGM) is used to demonstrate a biophysical framework for
predicting grain yield outcomes for Genotype by Environment by Management (G× E× M) …

Evolutionary innovations driving abiotic stress tolerance in C4 grasses and cereals

J Pardo, R VanBuren - The Plant Cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Grasslands dominate the terrestrial landscape, and grasses have evolved complex and
elegant strategies to overcome abiotic stresses. The C4 grasses are particularly stress …

Modelling selection response in plant-breeding programs using crop models as mechanistic gene-to-phenotype (CGM-G2P) multi-trait link functions

M Cooper, O Powell, KP Voss-Fels, CD Messina… - in silico …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Plant-breeding programs are designed and operated over multiple cycles to systematically
change the genetic makeup of plants to achieve improved trait performance for a Target …

Sustained improvement in tolerance to water deficit accompanies maize yield increase in temperate environments

C Messina, IA Ciampitti, D Berning, D Bubeck… - Crop …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Studies at a regional scale suggest that although maize (Zea mays L.) yield increased
substantially, sensitivity to water deficit also increased concurrently with crop improvement …

Risk assessment of genetically engineered plants that can persist and propagate in the environment

A Bauer-Panskus, J Miyazaki, K Kawall… - Environmental Sciences …, 2020 - Springer
New challenges arise in risk assessment when genetically engineered (GE) plants can
persist and propagate in the environment as well as produce viable offspring. Next …

Predicting Genotype× Environment× Management (G× E× M) interactions for the design of crop improvement strategies: integrating breeder, agronomist, and farmer …

M Cooper, CD Messina, T Tang, C Gho… - Plant breeding …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Genotype‐by‐environment‐by‐management (G× E× M) interactions for crop
productivity represent both challenges and opportunities for long‐term crop improvement …

Two decades of harnessing standing genetic variation for physiological traits to improve drought tolerance in maize

CD Messina, C Gho, GL Hammer… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We review approaches to maize breeding for improved drought tolerance during flowering
and grain filling in the central and western US corn belt and place our findings in the context …