Yield dissection models in tomato identify promising yield components and corresponding QTLs.

Evaluating how limited transpiration at high evaporative demand affect grain yield across Australia using computer models.

Soybean is not commonly grown in Northern Europe, but can it be, and how?

A new study unravels why maize has higher yields and sorghum is more drought tolerant using a cropping systems modeling platform.

A new study uses drought patterns, sowing date, and genotype phenology to reduce sorghum water stress during critical stages.

Dynamic crop simulation models can be transformed into gene-based models by replacing an existing process module with a gene-based module for simulating the same process.

A new model uncovers the possible mechanisms underlying the robustness of flat leaf production.

Combing new tools for the rapid advancement of genetic gain in sorghum breeding programs.

Researchers use 3D modelling of rice canopies to determine how nitrogen availability affects photosynthetic productivity.

Incorporating genotype-specific parameters and realistic trait physiology will advance crop growth models.

An update on major microarray and RNA-seq studies, exploration of data integration approaches using gene coexpression network, and outline of important web resources.

The use of mechanistic crop models can optimize the efficiency of breeding programs.