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Future Crops

Published April 1, 2020 Calls for Papers Collections

PLOS ONE is excited to publish a Collection on the theme of Future Crops. Guaranteeing global food and nutritional security over the coming decades is widely recognised as one of the grand challenges facing contemporary science. Overcoming the barriers to enhanced food production requires innovative and interdisciplinary research programmes, spanning plant breeding, biotechnology, biotic and abiotic interactions, and agronomic production systems. From the utilisation of neglected crop species and wild relatives to the engineering of enhanced pest resistance, and from analysis of weed competition to improved modelling approaches for plant breeding, this Collection brings together timely research into the many routes to improved crop production. The diverse selection of articles highlights important developments across the breadth of crop science.

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PLOS ONE Introducing the Future Crops Collection | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog
January 20, 2020 PLOS ONE Staff
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PLOS ONE Forecasting severe grape downy mildew attacks using machine learning
March 12, 2020 Mathilde Chen, François Brun, Marc Raynal, David Makowski
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PLOS ONE A novel seed treatment-based multiplication approach for cassava planting material
March 6, 2020 Eder Jorge de Oliveira, Saulo Alves Santos de Oliveira, Caroline Otto, Titus Alicai, Juan Paulo Xavier de Freitas, Diego Fernando Marmolejo Cortes, Anthony Pariyo, Charles Liri, Gerald Adiga, Andrea Balmer, Dominik Klauser, Mike Robinson
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10.1371/journal.pone.0229910

PLOS ONE Innovating within or outside dominant food systems? Different challenges for contrasting crop diversification strategies in Europe
March 12, 2020 Kevin Morel, Eva Revoyron, Magali San Cristobal, Philippe V. Baret
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PLOS ONE Orchard Recycling Improves Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Potential of Almond Production Systems
March 27, 2020 Emad Jahanzad, Brent Holtz, Cameron Zuber, David Doll, Kelsey Brewer, Sean Hogan, Amélie Gaudin
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PLOS ONE Shotguns vs Lasers: Identifying barriers and facilitators to scaling-up plant molecular farming for high-value health products
March 20, 2020 Jonathan Menary, Matthew Hobbs, Sara Mesquita de Albuquerque, Agata Pacho, Pascal M. W. Drake, Alison Prendiville, Julian K-C. Ma, Sebastian S. Fuller
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PLOS ONE Novel bioassay to assess antibiotic effects of fungal endophytes on aphids
February 10, 2020 Nicholas Collinson, Ross Mann, Khageswor Giri, Mallik Malipatil, Jatinder Kaur, German Spangenberg, Isabel Valenzuela
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PLOS ONE Effect of conservation farming and biochar addition on soil organic carbon quality, nitrogen mineralization, and crop productivity in a light textured Acrisol in the sub-humid tropics
February 6, 2020 Jose Luis Munera-Echeverri, Vegard Martinsen, Line Tau Strand, Gerard Cornelissen, Jan Mulder
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PLOS ONE Winter cover crops increase readily decomposable soil carbon, but compost drives total soil carbon during eight years of intensive, organic vegetable production in California
February 6, 2020 Kathryn E. White, Eric B. Brennan, Michel A. Cavigelli, Richard F. Smith
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PLOS ONE Multi-trait random regression models increase genomic prediction accuracy for a temporal physiological trait derived from high-throughput phenotyping
February 3, 2020 Toshimi Baba, Mehdi Momen, Malachy T. Campbell, Harkamal Walia, Gota Morota
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PLOS ONE Community structure of soil fungi in a novel perennial crop monoculture, annual agriculture, and native prairie reconstruction
January 30, 2020 Thomas P. McKenna, Timothy E. Crews, Laura Kemp, Benjamin A. Sikes
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PLOS ONE Investigating the diverse potential of a multi-purpose legume, Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet, for smallholder production in East Africa
January 27, 2020 Alison Nord, Neil Miller, Wilfred Mariki, Laurie Drinkwater, Sieglinde Snapp
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PLOS ONE First adaptation of quinoa in the Bhutanese mountain agriculture systems
January 16, 2020 Tirtha Bdr Katwal, Didier Bazile
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PLOS ONE Concomitant phytonutrient and transcriptome analysis of mature fruit and leaf tissues of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. cv. Oregon Spring) grown using organic and conventional fertilizer
January 13, 2020 Richard Sharpe, Luke Gustafson, Seanna Hewitt, Benjamin Kilian, James Crabb, Christopher Hendrickson, Derick Jiwan, Preston Andrews, Amit Dhingra
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PLOS ONE Evaluation of rice wild relatives as a source of traits for adaptation to iron toxicity and enhanced grain quality
January 3, 2020 Birgit Bierschenk, Melle Tagele, Basharat Ali, Md Ashrafuzzaman, Lin-Bo Wu, Matthias Becker, Michael Frei
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10.1371/journal.pone.0227011

PLOS ONE A systems biology approach uncovers a gene co-expression network associated with cell wall degradability in maize
December 31, 2019 Clément Cuello, Aurélie Baldy, Véronique Brunaud, Johann Joets, Etienne Delannoy, Marie-Pierre Jacquemot, Lucy Botran, Yves Griveau, Cécile Guichard, Ludivine Soubigou-Taconnat, Marie-Laure Martin-Magniette, Philippe Leroy, Valérie Méchin, Matthieu Reymond, Sylvie Coursol
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PLOS ONE The home field advantage of modern plant breeding
December 26, 2019 Patrick M. Ewing, Bryan C. Runck, Thomas Y. J. Kono, Michael B. Kantar
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PLOS ONE Lowbush blueberry fruit yield and growth response to inorganic and organic N-fertilization when competing with two common weed species
December 26, 2019 Charles Marty, Josée-Anne Lévesque, Robert L. Bradley, Jean Lafond, Maxime C. Paré
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PLOS ONE Introgression of a cry1Ab transgene into open pollinated maize and its effect on Cry protein concentration and target pest survival
December 16, 2019 Reynardt Erasmus, Rialet Pieters, Hannalene Du Plessis, Angelika Hilbeck, Miluse Trtikova, Annemie Erasmus, Johnnie Van den Berg
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PLOS ONE Agricultural intensification was associated with crop diversification in India (1947-2014)
December 11, 2019 Jamey C. Smith, Aniruddha Ghosh, Robert J. Hijmans
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PLOS ONE Evidence for pre-climacteric activation of AOX transcription during cold-induced conditioning to ripen in European pear (Pyrus communis L.)
December 4, 2019 Christopher Hendrickson, Seanna Hewitt, Mark E. Swanson, Todd Einhorn, Amit Dhingra
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PLOS ONE Genome-wide association study of drought tolerance and biomass allocation in wheat
December 4, 2019 Isack Mathew, Hussein Shimelis, Admire Isaac Tichafa Shayanowako, Mark Laing, Vincent Chaplot
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PLOS ONE Comparison of shape quantification methods for genomic prediction, and genome-wide association study of sorghum seed morphology
November 21, 2019 Lisa Sakamoto, Hiromi Kajiya-Kanegae, Koji Noshita, Hideki Takanashi, Masaaki Kobayashi, Toru Kudo, Kentaro Yano, Tsuyoshi Tokunaga, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Hiroyoshi Iwata
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10.1371/journal.pone.0224631

PLOS ONE Effect of F₁ and F₂ generations on genetic variability and working steps of doubled haploid production in maize
November 11, 2019 Evellyn Giselly de Oliveira Couto, Mayara Neves Cury, Massaine Bandeira e Souza, Ítalo Stefanine Correia Granato, Miriam Suzane Vidotti, Deoclécio Domingos Garbuglio, José Crossa, Juan Burgueño, Roberto Fritsche-Neto
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10.1371/journal.pone.0224386

PLOS ONE Surveillance of panicle positions by unmanned aerial vehicle to reveal morphological features of rice
October 31, 2019 Daisuke Ogawa, Toshihiro Sakamoto, Hiroshi Tsunematsu, Toshio Yamamoto, Noriko Kanno, Yasunori Nonoue, Jun-ichi Yonemaru
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PLOS ONE Enhancing genomic selection by fitting large-effect SNPs as fixed effects and a genotype-by-environment effect using a maize BC₁F_3:4 population
October 17, 2019 Dongdong Li, Zhenxiang Xu, Riliang Gu, Pingxi Wang, Demar Lyle, Jialiang Xu, Guogying Wang, Hongwei Zhang
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PLOS ONE Transcriptome analysis of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola exposed to H₂O₂ reveals horizontal gene transfer contributes to its oxidative stress response
October 3, 2019 Yuan Fang, Haoye Wang, Xia Liu, Dedong Xin, Bo Zhu, Yuchun Rao
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PLOS ONE Multi-dimensional evaluation of response to salt stress in wheat
September 30, 2019 Said Dadshani, Ram C. Sharma, Michael Baum, Francis Chuks Ogbonnaya, Jens Léon, Agim Ballvora
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PLOS ONE Gibberellic acid in Citrus spp. flowering and fruiting: A systematic review
September 26, 2019 Alfonso Garmendia, Roberto Beltrán, Carlos Zornoza, Francisco J. García-Breijo, José Reig, Hugo Merle
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PLOS ONE Seed treatment using methyl jasmonate induces resistance to rice water weevil but reduces plant growth in rice
September 23, 2019 Emily C. Kraus, Michael J. Stout
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PLOS ONE Heat stress responses in a large set of winter wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.) depend on the timing and duration of stress
September 20, 2019 Krisztina Balla, Ildikó Karsai, Péter Bónis, Tibor Kiss, Zita Berki, Ádám Horváth, Marianna Mayer, Szilvia Bencze, Ottó Veisz
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10.1371/journal.pone.0222540

PLOS ONE Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) resistance to growth of Leptosphaeria maculans in leaves of young plants contributes to quantitative resistance in stems of adult plants
September 12, 2019 Yong-Ju Huang, Sophie Paillard, Vinod Kumar, Graham J. King, Bruce D. L. Fitt, Régine Delourme
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PLOS ONE Transcriptome divergence during leaf development in two contrasting switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) cultivars
September 12, 2019 Nathan A. Palmer, R. V. Chowda-Reddy, Anthony A. Muhle, Satyanarayana Tatineni, Gary Yuen, Serge J. Edmé, Robert B. Mitchell, Gautam Sarath

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PLOS ONE A Call for Papers: Future Crops
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