ArticleScientific reports2025
Breeding progress is a major contributor to improved regional maize water productivity.
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- Shade avoidance responses in seedlings of maize hybrids representing 100 years of breeding history.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Trends in stomatal density and size in maize hybrids representing 100 years of long-term breeding for yield.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Breeding perspectives on tackling trait genome-to-phenome (G2P) dimensionality using ensemble-based genomic prediction.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2025Review
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Abstract
Agricultural water productivity, defined as the amount of grain produced per unit of available water, is an important sustainability criterion in modern crop production. Although genetic progress in maize has increased crop yields, there are limited studies on the role of plant breeding on this sustainability metric. In the center of the US corn-belt, maize rainfed yields have more than tripled since 1950 while relying on the same amount of water inputs. Our analysis shows that this shift in grain production resulted in a water productivity increase of 0.191 kg ha
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