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Climate variability impacts on rice production in the Philippines by Stuecker, Malte F, Tigchelaar, Michelle, Kantar, Michael B

“…Changes in crop yield and production over time are driven by a combination of genetics, agronomics, and climate. Disentangling the role of these various…”
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Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions by Mora, Camilo, Spirandelli, Daniele, Franklin, Erik C., Lynham, John, Kantar, Michael B., Miles, Wendy, Smith, Charlotte Z., Freel, Kelle, Moy, Jade, Louis, Leo V., Barba, Evan W., Bettinger, Keith, Frazier, Abby G., Colburn IX, John F., Hanasaki, Naota, Hawkins, Ed, Hirabayashi, Yukiko, Knorr, Wolfgang, Little, Christopher M., Emanuel, Kerry, Sheffield, Justin, Patz, Jonathan A., Hunter, Cynthia L.

“…The ongoing emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is triggering changes in many climate hazards that can impact humanity. We found traceable evidence for 467…”
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Tapping Diversity From the Wild: From Sampling to Implementation by Hübner, Sariel, Kantar, Michael B

“…The diversity observed among crop wild relatives (CWRs) and their ability to flourish in unfavorable and harsh environments have drawn the attention of plant…”
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Vitamin Variation in Capsicum Spp. Provides Opportunities to Improve Nutritional Value of Human Diets by Kantar, Michael B, Anderson, Justin E, Lucht, Sarah A, Mercer, Kristin, Bernau, Vivian, Case, Kyle A, Le, Nina C, Frederiksen, Matthew K, DeKeyser, Haley C, Wong, Zen-Zi, Hastings, Jennifer C, Baumler, David J

“…Chile peppers, native to the Americas, have spread around the world and have been integrated into the diets of many cultures. Much like their heat content,…”
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The home field advantage of modern plant breeding by Ewing, Patrick M, Runck, Bryan C, Kono, Thomas Y J, Kantar, Michael B

“…Since the mid-20th century, crop breeding has driven unprecedented yield gains. Breeders generally select for broadly- and reliably-performing varieties that…”
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A Target Capture-Based Method to Estimate Ploidy From Herbarium Specimens by Viruel, Juan, Conejero, María, Hidalgo, Oriane, Pokorny, Lisa, Powell, Robyn F, Forest, Félix, Kantar, Michael B, Soto Gomez, Marybel, Graham, Sean W, Gravendeel, Barbara, Wilkin, Paul, Leitch, Ilia J

“…Whole genome duplication (WGD) events are common in many plant lineages, but the ploidy status and possible occurrence of intraspecific ploidy variation are…”
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Regulator of Awn Elongation 3 , an E3 ubiquitin ligase, is responsible for loss of awns during African rice domestication by Bessho-Uehara, Kanako, Masuda, Kengo, Wang, Diane R, Angeles-Shim, Rosalyn B, Obara, Keisuke, Nagai, Keisuke, Murase, Riri, Aoki, Shin-Ichiro, Furuta, Tomoyuki, Miura, Kotaro, Wu, Jianzhong, Yamagata, Yoshiyuki, Yasui, Hideshi, Kantar, Michael B, Yoshimura, Atsushi, Kamura, Takumi, McCouch, Susan R, Ashikari, Motoyuki

“…Two species of rice have been independently domesticated from different ancestral wild species in Asia and Africa. Comparison of mutations that underlie…”
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Multi-Species Genomics-Enabled Selection for Improving Agroecosystems Across Space and Time by Wolfe, Marnin D., Jannink, Jean-Luc, Kantar, Michael B., Santantonio, Nicholas

“…Plant breeding has been central to global increases in crop yields. Breeding deserves praise for helping to establish better food security, but also shares the…”
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Genome-wide association study for carcass weight in pasture-finished beef cattle in Hawai'i by Adhikari, Mandeep, Kantar, Michael B, Longman, Ryan J, Lee, C N, Oshiro, Melelani, Caires, Kyle, He, Yanghua

“…Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic markers for cattle production and reproduction traits. Several publications have reported Single…”
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Wild relatives of potato may bolster its adaptation to new niches under future climate scenarios by Fumia, Nathan, Pironon, Samuel, Rubinoff, Daniel, Khoury, Colin K., Gore, Michael A., Kantar, Michael B.

“…Food production strategies and patterns are being altered in response to climate change. Enhancing the adaptation of important food crops to novel climate…”
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Taro Genome Assembly and Linkage Map Reveal QTLs for Resistance to Taro Leaf Blight by Bellinger, M Renee, Paudel, Roshan, Starnes, Steven, Kambic, Lukas, Kantar, Michael B, Wolfgruber, Thomas, Lamour, Kurt, Geib, Scott, Sim, Sheina, Miyasaka, Susan C, Helmkampf, Martin, Shintaku, Michael

“…Taro ( ) is a food staple widely cultivated in the humid tropics of Asia, Africa, Pacific and the Caribbean. One of the greatest threats to taro production is…”
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Fluctuation of ecological niches and geographic range shifts along chile pepper's domestication gradient by Martínez‐Ainsworth, Natalia E., Scheppler, Hannah, Moreno‐Letelier, Alejandra, Bernau, Vivian, Kantar, Michael B., Mercer, Kristin L., Jardón‐Barbolla, Lev

“…Domestication is an ongoing well‐described process. However, while many have studied the changes domestication causes in plant genetics, few have explored its…”
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A customized nuclear target enrichment approach for developing a phylogenomic baseline for Dioscorea yams (Dioscoreaceae) by Soto Gomez, Marybel, Pokorny, Lisa, Kantar, Michael B., Forest, Félix, Leitch, Ilia J., Gravendeel, Barbara, Wilkin, Paul, Graham, Sean W., Viruel, Juan

“…Premise We developed a target enrichment panel for phylogenomic studies of Dioscorea, an economically important genus with incompletely resolved relationships…”
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Utilizing CRISPR-Cas in Tropical Crop Improvement: A Decision Process for Fitting Genome Engineering to Your Species by Joo, Kathleen A., Muszynski, Michael G., Kantar, Michael B., Wang, Ming-Li, He, Xiaoling, Del Valle Echevarria, Angel R.

“…Adopting modern gene-editing technologies for trait improvement in agriculture requires important workflow developments, yet these developments are not often…”
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The effect of acute and chronic food shortage on human population equilibrium in a subsistence setting by Tomiyama, Joshua-Michael, Takagi, Daisuke, Kantar, Michael B.

“…Abstract Background  World population is projected to reach 9–11 billion by 2050, raising concerns about food system security and sustainability. Modeling food…”
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Improving agricultural science communication through intentionality by Kantar, Michael B., Wang, Diane R., Hale, Iago, Pratt, Richard C., Jensen, J. Vernon, Lewenstein, Bruce V.

“…Although communicating research is a key part of public science, current graduate curricula in the agricultural sciences usually have a narrow focus on…”
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Environmental Association Analyses Identify Candidates for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Glycine soja, the Wild Progenitor of Cultivated Soybeans by Anderson, Justin E, Kono, Thomas J Y, Stupar, Robert M, Kantar, Michael B, Morrell, Peter L

“…Natural populations across a species range demonstrate population structure owing to neutral processes such as localized origins of mutations and migration…”
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Toward Unifying Global Hotspots of Wild and Domesticated Biodiversity by Pironon, Samuel, Borrell, James S, Ondo, Ian, Douglas, Ruben, Phillips, Charlotte, Khoury, Colin K, Kantar, Michael B, Fumia, Nathan, Soto Gomez, Marybel, Viruel, Juan, Govaerts, Rafael, Forest, Félix, Antonelli, Alexandre

“…Global biodiversity hotspots are areas containing high levels of species richness, endemism and threat. Similarly, regions of agriculturally relevant diversity…”
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Genotypic and Environmental Influence on Fresh Rhizome Yield of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) by Tavares, Kylie, Kirk, Emilie, Motomura-Wages, Sharon, Calpito, Justin, Bingham, Jon-Paul, Ahmad, Amjad A., Flanagan, Kevin, Uyeda, Jensen, Kantar, Michael B., Radovich, Theodore J. K.

“…Turmeric (Curcuma longa) and related Curcuma species have been used traditionally in India, China, Hawaii, and other cultures for millennia. Today they are…”
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Nitrogen Dynamics and Sweet Potato Production under Indigenous Soil Moisture Conservation Practices in the Leeward Kohala Field System, Hawai’i Island by Sirabis, William C. L., Kantar, Michael B., Radovich, Theodore, Lincoln, Noa K.

“…Intensive cultivation of ‘uala (sweet potato) in the Leeward Kohala field system on Hawai’i Island supported substantial populations of Native Hawaiians prior…”
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