Molecular and genetic bases of fruit firmness variation in blueberry—a review

F Cappai, J Benevenuto, LFV Ferrão, P Munoz - Agronomy, 2018 - mdpi.com
Blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) has been recognized worldwide as a valuable source of health-
promoting compounds, becoming a crop with some of the fastest rising consumer demand …

[PDF][PDF] Improvement of stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) and steviol glycoside through traditional breeding and biotechnological approaches

SK Al-Taweel, CR Azzam, KA Khaled… - Sabrao J. Breed …, 2021 - sabraojournal.org
Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni, widely known as sweet leaf, is a perennial herbal species of the
Asteraceae family, which is widely used as a natural sweetener in many countries around …

Spectral vegetation indices to track senescence dynamics in diverse wheat germplasm

J Anderegg, K Yu, H Aasen, A Walter… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The ability of a genotype to stay green affects the primary target traits grain yield (GY) and
grain protein concentration (GPC) in wheat. High throughput methods to assess senescence …

Efficiency of multi-trait, indirect, and trait-assisted genomic selection for improvement of biomass sorghum

SB Fernandes, KOG Dias, DF Ferreira… - Theoretical and applied …, 2018 - Springer
Key message We compare genomic selection methods that use correlated traits to help
predict biomass yield in sorghum, and find that trait-assisted genomic selection performs …

Multi‐trait genomic selection for weevil resistance, growth, and wood quality in Norway spruce

PRN Lenz, S Nadeau, MJ Mottet… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plantation‐grown trees have to cope with an increasing pressure of pest and disease in the
context of climate change, and breeding approaches using genomics may offer efficient and …

The importance of dominance and genotype-by-environment interactions on grain yield variation in a large-scale public cooperative maize experiment

AR Rogers, JC Dunne, C Romay, M Bohn, ES Buckler… - G3, 2021 - academic.oup.com
High-dimensional and high-throughput genomic, field performance, and environmental data
are becoming increasingly available to crop breeding programs, and their integration can …

Development and evolution of an intermediate wheatgrass domestication program

L DeHaan, M Christians, J Crain, J Poland - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ecological intensification of agriculture is a proposed strategy to enhance the production of
food while expanding ecosystem services and reducing inputs. Perennial plants that are …

Heterosis of leaf and rhizosphere microbiomes in field‐grown maize

MR Wagner, JH Roberts, P Balint‐Kurti… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Macroorganisms' genotypes shape their phenotypes, which in turn shape the habitat
available to potential microbial symbionts. This influence of host genotype on microbiome …

Multi-Environment Yield Components in Advanced Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) × Tepary Bean (P. acutifolius A. Gray) Interspecific Lines for Heat and …

E Burbano-Erazo, RI León-Pacheco… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Heat and drought are major stresses that significantly reduce seed yield of the common
bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). In turn, this affects the profitability of the crop in climatic …

[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 …