ReviewTAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik2021
Beat the stress: breeding for climate resilience in maize for the tropical rainfed environments.
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79 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Combining Ability in Maize Breeding Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.Genes · 2026Pooled it
- Maize Biofortification Approaches for Fighting Malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa.Plant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Review
- Future changes in climate suitability, yields, and calorie optimization of four global staple food crops.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Yield Performance, Combining Ability and Stability of Early- to Medium-Maturing Doubled-Haploid Maize Lines in Eastern Africa.Plant breeding = Zeitschrift fur Pflanzenzuchtung · 2026Article
- Introgression of QTL hotspot regions enhances grain yield and maize lethal necrosis resistance in elite maize lines.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Inheritance of root morphology in tropical maize under contrasting nitrogen levels.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Steps to transform African opportunity crops into reality crops.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Genomic basis underlying alternative transcripts-mediated drought tolerance in maize.Genome biology · 2026Article
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- Genetic diversity and population structure of early-maturing yellow and orange maize inbred lines for improved breeding applications.PloS one · 2026Article
- Performance of doubled haploid maize (Zea mays L.) testcross hybrids under optimal and drought-stressed environments.PloS one · 2026Article
- Genetic analysis of drought and heat tolerance combined with Striga hermonthica resistance in tropical maize (Zea mays).PloS one · 2026Article
- Breeding climate-resilient maize for food security in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: strategies and future directions.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Gene action, combining ability, heterotic grouping and hybrid performance of tropical maize inbred lines from a public breeding program in Brazil.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Performance of early- and intermediate-maturing maize hybrids for grain yield and secondary traits under multiple stress environments.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Genotype by year interaction and additive and epistasis gene effects for Fusarium stalk rot resistance in doubled haploid lines of maize (Zea mays L.).Journal of applied genetics · 2025Article
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- Genome-wide association study of Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB) resistance using temperate and subtropical maize recombinant inbred lines.BMC genomics · 2025Article
- Integrating Genetic Diversity and Agronomic Innovations for Climate-Resilient Maize Systems.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Improved genomic prediction performance with ensembles of diverse models.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Article
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key messageIntensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars for the stress-prone environments in the tropics. Maize (Zea mays L.) plays a critical role in ensuring food and nutritional security, and livelihoods of millions of resource-constrained smallholders. However, maize yields in the tropical rainfed environments are now increasingly vulnerable to various climate-induced stresses, especially drought, heat, waterlogging, salinity, cold, diseases, and insect pests, which often come in combinations to severely impact maize crops. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), in partnership with several public and private sector institutions, has been intensively engaged over the last four decades in breeding elite tropical maize germplasm with tolerance to key abiotic and biotic stresses, using an extensive managed stress screening network and on-farm testing system. This has led to the successful development and deployment of an array of elite stress-tolerant maize cultivars across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Further increasing genetic gains in the tropical maize breeding programs demands judicious integration of doubled haploidy, high-throughput and precise phenotyping, genomics-assisted breeding, breeding data management, and more effective decision support tools. Multi-institutional efforts, especially public-private alliances, are key to ensure that the improved maize varieties effectively reach the climate-vulnerable farming communities in the tropics, including accelerated replacement of old/obsolete varieties.
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