The rapid development of molecular markers and sequencing technologies has made it possible to use genomic selection (GS) and genomic prediction (GP) in animal and plant breeding. However, computational difficulties arise when the number of observations is large. This five datasets provided here were used to support a comparative analysis of two...

Weed management can be one of the main challenges when adopting conservation agriculture. Although all three components of conservation agriculture (minimal tillage, permanent soil cover and crop diversification) can have a reducing effect on weed populations, these effects may only become apparent in the medium to long term. This study evaluated weed...

The use of genomic prediction could greatly help to increase the efficiency of selecting for wheat quality traits by reducing the cost and time required for this analysis. This study contains data used to evaluate the prediction performances of 13 wheat quality traits under two multi-trait models [Bayesian multi-trait multi-environment (BMTME) and...

The Acid-Soils Wheat Screening Nursery (ASWSN) contains spring bread wheat germplasm adapted to areas affected by low pH that are predominately in Brazil, the highlands of central Africa, and the Himalayas; the total estimated area is close to 2 million hectares. Disease and stress problems are similar to ME2. However, aluminum and manganese toxicities,...

This project makes use of known cloned yield component markers (targeted from Literature), in an attempt to accumulated favourable alleles to increase yield. The traits targeted to date are, grain size, TKM, grain number and tiller number. Recently, new root phenotyping methods were devised and optimised to determine root angle and root biomass at...

The files included in this study contains the data used with three promising multivariate loss functions: Kullback-Leibler (KL); the Energy Score; and the Multivariate Asymmetric Loss (MALF); to select the best performing parents for the next breeding cycle in two extensive real wheat data sets.

The summary results of the Regional Trials for CIMMYT Maize Hybrids in Eastern Africa for 2016. The trials are: EHYB16 - Early/extra-early maturing elite pre-commercial hybrids regional trials, EIHYB16 – Early-intermediate maturing elite pre-commercial hybrids regional trial, IHYB16 (Set 1) – Intermediate maturing elite...

The summary results of the Regional Trials for CIMMYT Maize Hybrids in Eastern Africa for 2017. The trials include: EHYB17-Set I – Early/extra-early maturing elite pre-commercial hybrids regional trials (including external and internal checks); IHYB17-Set I – Intermediate maturing elite pre-commercial hybrids regional trial (including...

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 Africa...

We characterized a panel of 151 durum wheat Mediterranean landraces and 20 modern cultivars via a series of molecular markers associated with Vrn-1 and Ppd-1 genes. The molecular data were used estimate the effects of the observed alleles on the time needed to reach six different growth stages under field conditions. Field experiments were carried out...

Synthetic hexaploid wheat was developed and used in breeding to introduce new genetic diversity into bread wheat, through interspecific hybridization of T. tauschii (diploid) and durum wheat T. turgidum (tetraploid) to produce synthetic derivatives. Therefore, one may infer that the genetic variances of native wild populations vs. improved wheat may be...

The Acid-Soils Wheat Screening Nursery (ASWSN) contains spring bread wheat germplasm adapted to areas affected by low pH that are predominately in Brazil, the highlands of central Africa, and the Himalayas; the total estimated area is close to 2 million hectares. Disease and stress problems are similar to ME2. However, aluminum and manganese toxicities,...

The Acid-Soils Wheat Screening Nursery (ASWSN) contains spring bread wheat germplasm adapted to areas affected by low pH that are predominately in Brazil, the highlands of central Africa, and the Himalayas; the total estimated area is close to 2 million hectares. Disease and stress problems are similar to ME2. However, aluminum and manganese toxicities,...

These factsheets are outputs of “Assessment of water resources and demand for irrigation in nine districts within the Eastern Gangetic Plains” Project which was supported by the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Grant number LWRC2013/099. For more information, contact Romulus Okwany, (r.okwany@cgiar.org) International Water...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...