Omics for the improvement of abiotic, biotic, and agronomic traits in major cereal crops: Applications, challenges, and prospects

B Kaur, KS Sandhu, R Kamal, K Kaur, J Singh… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Omics technologies, namely genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and
phenomics, are becoming an integral part of virtually every commercial cereal crop breeding …

Breeding for biotic stress resistance in pea

D Rubiales, E Barilli, N Rispail - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pea (Pisum sativum) stands out as one of the most significant and productive cool-season
pulse crops cultivated worldwide. Dealing with biotic stresses remains a critical challenge in …

Maize yield prediction at an early developmental stage using multispectral images and genotype data for preliminary hybrid selection

MF Danilevicz, PE Bayer, F Boussaid, M Bennamoun… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Assessing crop production in the field often requires breeders to wait until the end of the
season to collect yield-related measurements, limiting the pace of the breeding cycle. Early …

Genetic approaches to exploit landraces for improvement of Triticum turgidum ssp. durum in the age of climate change

C Broccanello, D Bellin, G DalCorso, A Furini… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Addressing the challenges of climate change and durum wheat production is becoming an
important driver for food and nutrition security in the Mediterranean area, where are located …

Genome-wide association study as a powerful tool for dissecting competitive traits in legumes

P Susmitha, P Kumar, P Yadav, S Sahoo… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Legumes are extremely valuable because of their high protein content and several other
nutritional components. The major challenge lies in maintaining the quantity and quality of …

Remote sensing for field pea yield estimation: A study of multi-scale data fusion approaches in phenomics

A Marzougui, RJ McGee, S Van Vleet… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Remote sensing using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are prevalent for
phenomics and precision agricultural applications. The high-resolution data for these …

Prospectus of genomic selection and phenomics in cereal, legume and oilseed breeding programs

KS Sandhu, LF Merrick, S Sankaran, Z Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The last decade witnessed an unprecedented increase in the adoption of genomic selection
(GS) and phenomics tools in plant breeding programs, especially in major cereal crops. GS …

Predicting dry pea maturity using machine learning and advanced sensor fusion with unmanned aerial systems (UASs)

A Bazrafkan, H Navasca, JH Kim, M Morales… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Maturity is an important trait in dry pea breeding programs, but the conventional process
predominately used to measure this trait can be time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone …

Effect of the solar zenith angles at different latitudes on estimated crop vegetation indices

M Valencia-Ortiz, W Sangjan, MG Selvaraj, RJ McGee… - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
Normalization of anisotropic solar reflectance is an essential factor that needs to be
considered for field-based phenotyping applications to ensure reliability, consistency, and …

Combining NDVI and bacterial blight score to predict grain yield in field pea

H Zhao, BR Pandey, M Khansefid… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Field pea is the most commonly grown temperate pulse crop, with close to 15 million tons
produced globally in 2020. Varieties improved through breeding are important to ensure …