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Field Trials Reveal Ecotype-Specific Responses to Mycorrhizal Inoculation in Rice by Diedhiou, A.G., Mbaye, F.K., Mbodj, D., Faye, M.N., Pignoly, S., Ndoye, I., Djaman, K., Gaye, S., Kane, A., Laplaze, L., Manneh, B., Champion, A.

“…These results show the potential of using AMF to improve rice production with less chemical fertilizers and present new opportunities for the genetic improvement in rice to transfer the ability of forming beneficial rice-microbe associations into high yielding varieties in order to increase further rice yield potentials.…”
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The economic contribution of CGIAR germplasm health units to international agricultural research: the example of rice blast disease in Bangladesh by Enriquez, Y., Smale, M., Jamora, Nelissa, Hossain, M., Kumar, P. Lava

“…This study measures the economic contribution of International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) Germplasm Health Unit (GHU) to a breeding program that aims to avert yield losses from rice blast disease (Pyricularia oryzae Cavara) in Bangladesh. …”
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Paternity assignment in white guinea yam (Dioscorea Rotundata) half-sib Progenies from polycross mating design using SNP markers by Norman, P.E., Agre, P.A., Danquah, A., Tongoona, P.B., Danquah, E.Y., Koeyer, D. de, Ikeogu, Ugochukwu N., Asiedu, R., Asfaw, A.

“…Findings are useful for parental reconstruction, accurate dissection of the genetic effects, and selection in white Guinea yam breeding program utilizing polycross mating design.…”
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Culture of Kenyan goat (Capra hircus) undifferentiated spermatogonia in feeder-free conditions by Nabulindo, N.W., Nguhiu-Mwangi, J., Kipyegon, A.N., Ogugo, M., Muteti, C., Tiambo, Christian K., Oatley, M.J., Oatley, J.M., Kemp, Stephen J.

“…This capacity has the potential to be exploited as a surrogate sires breeding tool to achieve widespread dissemination of desirable genetics in livestock production. Because SSCs are relatively rare in testicular tissue, the ability to expand a population in vitro would be advantageous to provide large numbers for transplantation into surrogate recipient males. …”
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Impact of early genomic prediction for recurrent selection in an upland rice synthetic population by Baertschi, Cédric, Cao, Tuong-Vi, Bartholomé, Jérôme, Ospina Rey, Yolima, Quintero, Constanza, Frouin, Julien, Bouvet, Jean-M., Grenier, Cécile

“…In this type of breeding strategy, early evaluation of selection candidates combined with genomic prediction could substantially shorten the breeding cycle length, thus increasing the rate of genetic gain. The objective of this study was to optimize early genomic prediction in an upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) synthetic population improved through recurrent selection via shuttle breeding in two sites. …”
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Novel Genomic Regions Linked to Ascochyta Blight Resistance in Two Differentially Resistant Cultivars of Chickpea by Alo, Fida, Ran, Anupalli, Baum, Michael, Singh, Sarvjeet, Kehel, Zakaria, Rani, Upasana, Udupa, Sripada M., Al-Shamaa, Khaled, Alsamman, Alsamman M., Istanbuli, Tawffiq, Attar, Basem, Hamwieh, Aladdin, Amri, Ahmed

“…The results have identified AB resistance-associated regions on the physical genetic map of chickpea and allowed for the identification of associated markers that will help in breeding of AB-resistant varieties.…”
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Impact of awareness campaign for enhancing adoption of new cactus pear accessions in Jordan by Hassan, Sawsan, Kaabneh, Awad, Haddad, Nizzar, Louhaichi, Mounir

“…Recently, over 50 new cactus pear accessions with different genetic and morphological traits and different fruit colors ranging from white to red have been introduced and evaluated at Mushaqqar research station at the National Center for Agricultural Research (NARC) in Jordan. …”
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Genome-wide association study of phytic acid in wheat grain unravels markers for improving biofortification by Zhengyu Wen, Juliana, Philomin, Dhugga, Harshaant S., Pacheco, Mario, Martínez, Ulises I., Aguilar, Agustin, Ibba, Maria Itria, Velu, Govindan, Singh, Ravi P., Dhugga, Kanwarpal S.

“…Genome-wide association study revealed 21 genetic associations, six of which were consistent across years. …”
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Comparison of sequencing-based and array-based genotyping platforms for genomic prediction of maize hybrid performance by Yu, Guangning, Cui, Yanru, Jiao, Yuxin, Zhou, Kai, Xin Wang, Yang, Wenyan, Xu, Yiyi, Yang, Kun, Zhang, Xuecai, Pengcheng Li, Zefeng Yang, Yang Xu, Chenwu Xu

“…Genomic selection (GS) is a powerful tool for improving genetic gain in maize breeding. However, its routine application in large-scale breeding pipelines is limited by the high cost of genotyping platforms. …”
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Preliminary study on the seasonal questing of Ixodes ricinus group ticks in Ain Draham forest (north-western Tunisia) with analyses of their phylogenetic diversity by Elati, Khawla, Khammasi Khbou, Médiha, Kahl, Olaf, Mwacharo, Joram, Al-Shamaa, Khaled, Rekik, Mourad, Darghouth, Mohamed Aziz, Gharbi, Mohamed

“…The comparison of 16S rDNA sequences from 20 adult ticks of approximately 444 bp length showed variability among 11 sequences. There was a low genetic variability (<1%) among the I. ricinus isolates collected from the forest. …”
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Multivariate analysis in the dissection of phenotypic variation of Ethiopian cultivated barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp Vulgare L.) genotypes by Fantahun, Basazen, Woldesemayate, Tesfaye, Fadda, Carlo, Gebrehawaryat, Yosef, Pe, Enrico, Dell’Acqua, Matteo

“…Efficient conservation and subsequent utilization of genetic resources are primarily dependent on the strength in the assessment of variation among genotypes. …”
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Neglected and underutilised species (NUS): an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) by El Bilali, Hamid, Cardone, Gianluigi, Falcis, Eleonora de, Naino Jika, Abdel Kader, Rokka, Susanna, Diawara, Ali Badara, Nouhou, Bassirou, Ghione, Andrea

“…Climate change, biodiversity loss and genetic erosion, land and agroecosystem degradation, loss of traditional knowledge and heritage, and competition from commercial crops are among the main threats to NUS. …”
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A linear profit function for economic weights of linear phenotypic selection indices in plant breeding by Ceron Rojas, J. Jesus, Gowda, Manje, Toledo, Fernando H., Beyene, Yoseph, Bentley, Alison R., Crespo-Herrera, Leonardo A., Gardner, Keith A., Crossa, José

“…The profit function (net returns minus costs) allows breeders to derive trait economic weights to predict the net genetic merit (H) using the linear phenotypic selection index (LPSI). …”
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Characterization of bean seed producers, seed production and marketing in Eastern and Southern Africa by Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Kalemera, Sylvia Monica, Aseete, Paul

“…The private sector has not been keen to supply bean seed because of high rates of seed recycling by farmers given the self-pollinating and limited genetic deterioration of the crop (Rubyogo et al., 2019). …”
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A Temperature-Dependent Phenology Model for the Sweetpotato Whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1 (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Sporleder, M., Gamarra, H., Carhuapoma, Pablo, Kroschel, Jürgen, Kreuze, Jan F.

“…The overall model predicted population development within the temperature range of 13.9° to 33.4°C with a maximum finite rate of population increase (=1.138) at 26.4°C. …”
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Genome-wide association mapping of genotype-environment interactions affecting yield-related traits of spring wheat grown in three watering regimes by Said, Alaa A., MacQueen, Alice H., Shawky, Haitham, Reynolds, Matthew P., Juenger, Thomas E., El-Soda, Mohamed

“…We selected genotypes that outperformed two local check cultivars; some of them overlapped across the three watering regimes and could be used to create a multi-parent population to further unravel the genetic factors underlying yield component traits across drought stress. …”
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Proceedings of a Workshop on Characterizing and Defining the Social and Economic Domains of Sustainable Diets by Comerford, Kevin, Arndt, Channing, Drewnowski, Adam, Ericksen, Polly J., Griffin, Tim, Hendrickson, Mary, Ingram, John, Nicholls, Jill

“…Global challenges associated with a growing demand for food in the face of finite natural resources and climate change have prompted concerns about the sustainability of our current food systems. …”
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Application of multi-layer neural network and hyperspectral reflectance in genome-wide association study for grain yield in bread wheat by Fei, Shuaipeng, Hassan, Muhammad Adeel, Yonggui Xiao, Rasheed, Awais, Xianchun Xia, Ma, Yuntao, Luping Fu, Zhen Chen, He Zhonghu

“…In this study, a natural population containing 166 wheat cultivars and elite lines was used for time-series prediction of GY using ground-based hyperspectral remote sensing. …”
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Investigating volatile semiochemical production from Bos taurus and Bos indicus as a novel phenotype for breeding host resistance to ixodid ticks by Matika, O., Foster, S., Githaka, Naftaly W., Owido, Gad, Ngetich, Collins, Mwendia, C., Brown, H., Caulfield, J., Watson, Kellie, Djikeng, Appolinaire, Birkett, M.

“…The cost of chemical control is high and there is an ever-increasing tick resistance to chemical acaricides. Genetic selection as alternative long-term control strategy is constrained by laborious phenotyping using tick counts or scores. …”
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CIP-PODEROSA CROCANTE, CIP-PODEROSA POLLERA, and CIP-PODEROSA WATIA: New Potato Varieties for Family Farming with Resistance to Late Blight and High Quality for the Frying Industry by Gastelo, M., Pérez, W., Eyzaguirre, R., Quispe, K., Sanabria, K., Bastos, C., Otiniano, R., Pérez, J.M., Mendoza, A., Unda, T., Andrade-Piedra, J.L.

“…These varieties can also be used in other countries as parental material in genetic improvement programs or evaluated under regional environments to be registered as new varieties.…”
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