plant breeding

The nature of code: Why is it

Many find genetics, as a field of science on its own, charming. Many more are excited to learn about the science that fits seamlessly into complexity driven life of organisms, providing explanation for natural phenomena at both micro-evolutionary and macro-evolutionary scales.

Correlation and pathway analysis with path diagrams

Background Correlation study is one of the most extensively yet not fully appreciated topic. It forms the backbone of several other inferential studies. Path analysis, on a similar note, is a derived technique that explains directed dependencies among a set of variables.

Valentine wheat

Private lives of wheat Wheat are romantics! Hopeless romantics – not hapless by any means, though. 😄 It is the sesaon of dancing Wheat. Beginning with contacting the soil first this November and since then, wheat has been challenging. Challenging the sod early on, micromanging the cosm surrounding the biosphere, mobilizing all it could get from pretty much listless ground.

World production and grain composition of major cultivated species

Context Out of crops raised for their seed/grains (listed under 35 species, by FAO; FAOSTAT, 2014), only 22 species are produced in substantial amounts. Species of graminae and leguminosae families alone account for about 85 percent of the total grain production.

Color charts: An introductory review on applications to qualitative crop phenotyping

Background Colorimetry is a fascinating topic to discuss. In conjunction with the patterns of a natural world (See this awesome video about fibonacci numbers and plants), colors could have mesmerizing feels. In this post and the follow-up article, we will discuss in details about colorimetric features of a universe made of plants, in particular, which are cultivated/adopted and have edible human values – the agricultural crops.