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This Topical Collection aims to bridge the domains of artificial intelligence and agriculture, unravelling the untapped potential of machine learning, deep learning, predictive modelling, and other AI techni...

Crop genetic resources are the raw materials that sustain continued genetic gains through breeding. Assessing, characterizing, mining and exploring genetic diversity has attracted significant attention in th...

Increased climate variability means that breeders and agronomists need to broaden the adaptability of crop varieties grown and increase the yield stability to help minimize climate-induced risks and build re...

Humanity is facing enormous challenges in the years to come: sustainability of agriculture and sustainability of our supply with food, feed and renewable materials are neither granted nor free. Plant breedin...

In the first years of the twentieth century, the development of maize inbred lines and hybrids started a new agricultural era. Combined with agricultural techniques, hybrids exploiting heterosis increased gr...

Overview: Millets are climate resilient, nutritious, small-seeded grasses used mainly for food and feed. Besides sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] and pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.], sever...