The domesticated sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., is a global oil crop that has promise for
climate change adaptation, because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of …

Understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity is crucial for predicting and managing
climate change effects on wild plants and crops. Here, we combined crop modelling and …

Climate change produces more frequent and intense drought events during seed
development that can affect seed quality. Germination is critical to ensure plant growth and …

Prediction of hybrid performance using incomplete factorial mating designs is widely used
in breeding programs including different heterotic groups. Based on the general combining …

Key message This study compares five models of GWAS, to show the added value of non-additive
modeling of allelic effects to identify genomic regions controlling flowering time of …

Heliaphen is an outdoor platform designed for high-throughput phenotyping. It allows the
automated management of drought scenarios and monitoring of plants throughout their …

Sunflower is a hybrid crop that is considered moderately drought-tolerant and adapted to new
cropping systems required for the agro-ecological transition. Here, we studied the impact …

Plasmopara halstedii is an obligate biotrophic oomycete causing downy mildew disease on
sunflower, Helianthus annuus, an economically important oil crop. Severe symptoms of the …

Plant or soil water status is required in many scientific fields to understand plant responses
to drought. Because the transcriptomic response to abiotic conditions, such as water deficit, …

Background Leaf senescence is a complex process, controlled by multiple genetic and
environmental variables. In sunflower, leaf senescence is triggered abruptly following anthesis …