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Author: Suchismita Mondal
Nora Honsdorf Suchismita Mondal Iván Ortíz-Monasterios Nele Verhulst (2022)
Conservation agriculture (CA) systems represent a set of three soil management principles: minimarbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotations ‐ whereas the CA‐based systems in this study add the bed and furrow tillage techniques as integral elements of CA. Studies on the effects of long‐term CA‐based systems on soil health and crop productivity are rare globally, particularly in Ethiopia. This study aimed at investigating the long‐term (2005–2013) influence of CA‐based systems on soil health and crop productivity in northern Ethiopia. The treatments we used include two types of CA‐based systems (permanent raised bed PRB and contour furrowing CF) and conventional tillage (CT) arranged in a randomized complete block design. Soil samples were collected at 0–10 cm soil depth to assess soil health. Piecewise structural equation modeling (PSEM) was used to analyze linkages between management practices, soil health and crop productivity. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi spore abundance and root colonization was higher in PRB followed by CF compared to CT (p < 0.05). Significantly different soil N of 1.4 and 0.9 g kg−1 and available P of 6.7 and 4.1 ppm were recorded for PRB and CT, respectively. Higher straw and grain yield of 12 and 4.3, 10 and 3.5, 8 and 2.8 t ha−1 were recorded for PRB, CF and CT, respectively. Outputs of the PSEM highlighted two pathways in which CA‐based systems contributed to improved productivity: (a) via higher density of bacteria and improved hydraulic conductivity, and (b) via higher density of fungi and increase soil organic carbon content in the topsoil. The study concludes that CA‐based systems have the potential to improve crop productivity through improved soil health.
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Farm Yield Potential Yield CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA WHEAT WEATHER YIELDS CLIMATE CHANGE SIMULATION MODELS
Genomic selection models based on integration of GWAS loci and epistatic interactions
deepmala sehgal Suchismita Mondal Ravi Singh Susanne Dreisigacker (2020)
The potential to integrate consistent associations identified from GWAS as fixed variables in GP models to improve prediction accuracy for complex traits (for example, grain yield) has not been investigated comprehensively in wheat. Here, we untangled the genetic architecture of grain yield and yield stability by haplotypes-based GWAS and epistatic scan of the genome. We then integrated robust and stable associations (and interacting loci) as fixed effects in GP models to investigate the importance of these associations in improving prediction accuracies of the said traits. We concluded that the utility of GP incorporating GWAS results is noteworthy for GY when GWAS results identify significant and robust genomic regions.
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High-resolution spectral information enables phenotyping of leaf epicuticular wax in wheat
Fatima Camarillo-Castillo Suchismita Mondal Matthew Paul Reynolds (2021)
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CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS Y BIOTECNOLOGÍA PLANT CUTICLE VEGETATION INDEX PHENOTYPES WHEAT PLANT BREEDING
Fatima Camarillo-Castillo Suchismita Mondal Matthew Paul Reynolds (2020)
Current limitations on phenotyping EW restrict the integration of this secondary trait into wheat breeding pipelines. In this study we evaluated the application of high-resolution spectral information as a proxy estimate of the trait and developed an efficient indirect method for the selection of genotypes with high EW density.
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Suchismita Mondal Jose Crossa Ravi Singh Jesse Poland (2020)
The files contain pedigree information on lines used in the study, trait data for grain yield, spectral traits and other agronomic data and genotypic data
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Prediction of multiple-trait and multiple-environment genomic data using recommender systems
Osval Antonio Montesinos-Lopez Jose Crossa Ravi Singh Suchismita Mondal Philomin Juliana (2017)
In genomic-enabled prediction, the task of improving the accuracy of the prediction of lines in environments is difficult because the available information is generally sparse and usually has low correlations between traits. In current genomic selection, while researchers have a large amount of information and appropriate statistical models to process it, there is still limited computing efficiency to do so. Although statistical models are usually mathematically elegant, they are also computatio nally inefficient, and they are impractical for many traits, lines, environments, and years because they need to sample from huge normal multivariate distributions. For these reasons, this study explores two recommender systems: a) item-based collaborative filtering (IBCF; method M1) and b) the matrix factorization algorithm (method M2) in the context of multiple traits and multiple environments. The IBCF and matrix factorization methods were compared with two conventional methods on simulated and real data. Results of the simulated and real data sets show that the IBCF technique (method M1) was slightly better in terms of prediction accuracy than the two conventional methods and the matrix factorization method when the correlation was moderately high. The IBCF technique is very attractive because it produces good predictions when there is high correlation between items (environment-trait combinations) and its implementation is computationally feasible, which can be useful for plant breeders who deal with very large data sets.
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Suchismita Mondal Somak Dutta Leonardo Abdiel Crespo Herrera JULIO HUERTA_ESPINO Hans-Joachim Braun Ravi Singh (2019)
This dataset provides supplementary files related to fifty years of semi-dwarf spring wheat breeding at CIMMYT: Grain yield progress in optimum, drought and heat stress environments.
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Suchismita Mondal Margaret Krause Philomin Juliana Jesse Poland Susanne Dreisigacker Ravi Singh (2018)
Genomic, pedigree, grain yield and hyperspectral data for the manuscript
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Leonardo Abdiel Crespo Herrera Ravi Singh Suchismita Mondal Philomin Juliana DIEGO JARQUIN Jose Crossa (2021)
Sparse testing can be used in plant breeding and genome-based prediction. In sparse testing not all of the lines are sown in all environments. The phenotypic and genotypic data files provided in this dataset were used to execute an analysis of three general cases of the composition of the sparse testing allocation design for wheat breeding.
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