Cosmos Magorokosho

TL;DR: The UAV-based aerial sensing platforms have great potential for monitoring the dynamics of crop canopy characteristics like crop vigor through ground canopy cover and canopy senescence in breeding trial plots, and are anticipated to assist in improving selection efficiency through higher accuracy and precision, as well as reduced time and cost of data collection.

TL;DR: Genetic gain under optimal conditions, managed drought, random drought, low N, and MSV were estimated to have increased by 109.4, 32.7, 20.9 and 141.3 kg ha−1 yr−1, respectively, which are comparable with genetic gain in maize yields in other regions of the world.

TL;DR: A study to assess the impact of smallholder farmers’ adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties on total maize production in Zimbabwe finds that a change in varieties to DT maize seeds gives an extra income of US$240/ha or more than nine months of food at no additional cost.

TL;DR: The authors provided supplementary files for the trials and sites described in the 2011 paper in https://www.nature.com/nclimate/ available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE1043

TL;DR: In this article, the association mapping and genomic prediction analyses were conducted in a collection of 300 tropical and subtropical maize inbred lines to reveal the genetic architecture of grain yield and flowering time under well-watered, drought stress, heat stress, and combined drought and heat stress conditions.