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 …

On-farm soybean genetic progress and yield stability during the early 21st century: A case study of a commercial breeding program in Argentina and Brazil

LJ Abdala, ME Otegui, G Di Mauro - Field Crops Research, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Most studies assessing the genetic progress in soybean have traditionally
focused on retrospectives approaches, where commercial genotypes released over an …

Maize leaf angle genetic gain is slowing down in the last decades

EF Elli, J Edwards, J Yu, S Trifunovic, DM Eudy… - Crop …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying historical changes in maize leaf angle and factors affecting it can enhance our
understanding of canopy architecture and light capture, and hence crop productivity. Our …

Historical multi‐environmental trials reveal trends in hybrid grain sorghum performance from 1970 to 2021 in Texas

F Leon, L Harvey, WL Rooney - Crop Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor [L. Moench]) is among the most important cereal crops
worldwide and is widely grown across Texas' diverse geographies. While sorghum breeding …

Benchmarking sorghum and maize for both yield and economic advantage in the US Great Plains

F Gomez, JM Sanchis, V Giménez, J Lingenfelser… - Field Crops …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Context or problem The Great Plains region of the United States (US) has a rich
history of growing summer crops such as maize (Zea mays L.) and sorghum (Sorghum …

Identification of varieties of sorghum based on a competitive adaptive reweighted sampling-random forest process

K Wu, T Zhu, Z Wang, X Zhao, M Yuan… - … Food Research and …, 2024 - Springer
To address issues relating to the advantages of varieties of sorghum in construction,
breeding, and brewing of the seed repository, a visible–near-infrared hyperspectral imaging …

Maize outyielding sorghum under drought conditions helps explain land use changes in the US

JL Rotundo, A Salinas, N Gomara, L Borras… - Field Crops …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context or problem Maize and sorghum compete for their acreage due to similar
agroecological needs and end use. Recent studies discussed the implications of sorghum …

Yield gap analysis for rainfed grain sorghum in Kansas

S Sexton‐Bowser, A Patrignani - Agronomy Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the United States, grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] production is
concentrated in the US Great Plains region, with the state of Kansas accounting for∼ 50% of …

Sorghum producer yield contest: A synthesis-analysis of major management and environmental drivers

AJP Carcedo, IA Ciampitti - Field Crops Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Context Untangling the most relevant factors underpinning sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)
yields is critical to identify, within the target environments, the best management practices to …

[HTML][HTML] Historic Grain Sorghum Production, Value, Yield Gap, and Weather Relation Trends

Y Assefa, JD Holman, AK Obour, D O'Brien… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
There is limited information regarding the grain sorghum production trends from early in the
millennium towards the 2020s. The main objective of this study was to quantify the grain …