Raymond, Joanna Penfield, Steven Lovett, Andrew Mackay, Ian Philpott, Haidee Simpson, Conor John Christopher Dorling, Stephen
Published in
Environmental Research: Food Systems
There is an urgent need to adapt crop breeding strategies to boost resilience in the face of a growing food demand and a changing climate. Achieving this requires an understanding of how weather and climate variability impacts crop growth and development. Using the United Kingdom (UK) as an example, we evaluate changes in the UK agroclimate and ana...
Reinman, Tayler Braden, Jessica Miller, Nathan Daniel Murphy, Kevin M.
Published in
Frontiers in Nutrition
Climate change increases stressors that will challenge the resiliency of global agricultural production. Just three crops, wheat, maize, and rice, are estimated to sustain 50% of the caloric demand of the world population, meaning that significant loss of any of these crops would threaten global food security. However, increasing cropping system di...
Amankwaa-Yeboah, P. Mponela, P Akpatsu I, B Ofosu-Ampong, K. Ofori, P. Dugan, E Agbesi, K Jizorkuwie, A. B.
Masoud, Jalaludeen Mponela, Powell Akpatsu, Isaac Boatey Salifu, Fuseini Jizorkuwie, Abdul-latif Abera, Wuletawu
As a co-design and participatory action research (PAR) platform, the field day interfaced diverse stakeholders including farmers from 6 districts, the community leaders, their frontline extension agents and District Directors who shared lessons with the researchers: from national institutes CSIR-Crop Research Institute (CRI) and Soil Research Insti...
Tesfaye, Kindie Fantaye Mponela, Powell
seed equal, on cgiar initiative
Machida, Lewis Huerta Rodriguez, Francisco Makumbi, Dan Tarusenga, Murisi
REMATTOOL-R is a tool that helps breeders to visualize and assess the relationship between yield and several agronomic traits. Users can download the application, an abstract of the paper describing the application, and a sample dataset. The sample dataset includes maize field trial result means of an experiment from the Water Efficient Maize for A...
Krishna, Vijesh V. Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan
germplasm for the benefit of farmers and consumers of the Global South during and after the Green Revolution. Understanding farmers’ heterogeneous preferences for varietal traits in different market segments and incorporating the prominent ones in crop breeding programs are expected to facilitate a faster diffusion of these new varieties. Albeit kn...
Valle, José Francesco Arnaud, Elizabeth Marimo, Pricilla van Etten, Jacob
In order to assess the advances in participatory research for root, tuber and banana crops with focus on trait preferences, we have compiled available published and grey literature about Participatory Varietal Selection up to September 2020. Methodology: In total 123 entries in the database. Studies were characterized and priority traits were extra...
Brown, David Carpentier, Sebastien C. Bruin, Sytze de Sousa, Kauê de Machida, Lewis Etten, Jacob van
Crop variety trials are important to generate insights on variety environmental adaptation, but this requires that varieties should be tested in a wide range of environments to consider the complexity of genotype by environment interactions. Given the substantial costs of collecting trial data, agricultural science needs to maximize the insights ex...
