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ReviewAdvanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.)2021

Breeding custom-designed crops for improved drought adaptation.

Rajeev K Varshney, Rutwik Barmukh, Manish Roorkiwal, Yiping Qi, Jana Kholova, Roberto Tuberosa, Matthew P Reynolds, Francois Tardieu, Kadambot H M Siddique

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Review in Advanced genetics (Hoboken, N.J.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed
12.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Rajeev K VarshneyCentre of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Hyderabad India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4562-9131
Rutwik BarmukhCentre of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Hyderabad India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2740-8992
Manish RoorkiwalCentre of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Hyderabad India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6595-281X
Yiping QiDepartment of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture University of Maryland College Park Maryland USA.
Jana KholovaCrop Physiology and Modelling International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Hyderabad India.
Roberto TuberosaDepartment of Agricultural and Food Sciences University of Bologna Bologna Italy.
Matthew P ReynoldsInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Texcoco Mexico.
Francois TardieuUniversité de Montpellier, INRAE, Laboratoire d'Ecophysiologie des Plantes sous Stress, Environnementaux Montpellier France.
Kadambot H M SiddiqueThe UWA Institute of Agriculture The University of Western Australia Perth Western Australia Australia.
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics · INCentro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo · MXMurdoch University · AUThe University of Western Australia · AUUniversité de Montpellier · FRUniversity of Bologna · ITUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current pace of crop improvement is inadequate to feed the burgeoning human population by 2050. Higher, more stable, and sustainable crop production is required against a backdrop of drought stress, which causes significant losses in crop yields. Tailoring crops for drought adaptation may hold the key to address these challenges and provide resilient production systems for future harvests. Understanding the genetic and molecular landscape of the functionality of alleles associated with adaptive traits will make designer crop breeding the prospective approach for crop improvement. Here, we highlight the potential of genomics technologies combined with crop physiology for high-throughput identification of the genetic architecture of key drought-adaptive traits and explore innovative genomic breeding strategies for designing future crops.

Indexed as

context‐dependent optimizationdrought physiologygenome editinggenomic breedingroot system architecturespeed breeding

Identifiers

PMID36620433
PMCPMC9744523
OpenAlexW3195663393

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