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Cosmos Magorokosho
Researcher at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Publications - 56
Citations - 3674
Cosmos Magorokosho is an academic researcher from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Germplasm & Biology. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 49 publications receiving 2903 citations.
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Nonlinear heat effects on African maize as evidenced by historical yield trials
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of over 20,000 historical African maize trials suggests the crop will better cope with climate change under rain-fed management, and that optimal rainfed conditions would mean 65% of maize-growing areas in Africa would be likely to experience yield losses, compared with 100% under drought conditions.
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Identification of Drought, Heat, and Combined Drought and Heat Tolerant Donors in Maize
Jill E. Cairns,José Crossa,Pervez Haider Zaidi,Pichet Grudloyma,Ciro Sanchez,José Luis Araus,Suriphat Thaitad,Dan Makumbi,Cosmos Magorokosho,Marianne Bänziger,Abebe Menkir,Sarah Hearne,Gary Atlin +12 more
TL;DR: Tolerance to combined drought and heat stress in maize was genetically dis- tinct from tolerance to individual stresses, and tolerance to either stress alone did not confer tolerance to Combined drought andHeat stress, which has major implications for maize drought breeding.
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Genetic Gains in Grain Yield Through Genomic Selection in Eight Bi-parental Maize Populations under Drought Stress
Yoseph Beyene,Kassa Semagn,Stephen Mugo,Amsal Tarekegne,Raman Babu,Barbara Meisel,Pierre Sehabiague,Dan Makumbi,Cosmos Magorokosho,Sylvester O. Oikeh,John Gakunga,Mateo Vargas,Michael Olsen,Boddupalli M. Prasanna,Marianne Bänziger,José Crossa +15 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that genomic selection is more effective than pedigree-based conventional phenotypic selection for increasing genetic gains in grain yield under drought stress in tropical maize.
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Unmanned aerial platform-based multi-spectral imaging for field phenotyping of maize
Mainassara Zaman-Allah,Omar Vergara,José Luis Araus,Amsal Tarekegne,Cosmos Magorokosho,Pablo J. Zarco-Tejada,Alberto Hornero,A Hernández Albà,Biswajit Das,Peter Craufurd,Michael Olsen,Boddupalli M. Prasanna,Jill E. Cairns +12 more
TL;DR: The aerial sensing platform designed for phenotyping studies has the potential to effectively assist in crop genetic improvement against abiotic stresses like low-N provided that sensors have enough resolution for plot level data collection.
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Molecular characterization of global maize breeding germplasm based on genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms.
Yanli Lu,Yanli Lu,Jianbing Yan,Claudia Teixeira Guimarães,Suketoshi Taba,Zhuanfang Hao,Shibin Gao,Shaojiang Chen,Jiansheng Li,Shihuang Zhang,Bindiganavile S. Vivek,Cosmos Magorokosho,Stephen Mugo,Dan Makumbi,Sidney Netto Parentoni,Trushar Shah,Tingzhao Rong,Jonathan H. Crouch,Yunbi Xu +18 more
TL;DR: Pairwise comparisons across three distinct sets of germplasm showed that the elite lines from these diverse breeding pools have been developed with only limited utilization of genetic diversity existing in the center of origin.