A selection of recent peer-reviewed work — full citations and DOIs linked.
Nonlinear genomic selection index accelerates multi-trait crop improvement
Cerón-Rojas, J. J., Montesinos-López, O. A., Montesinos-López, A., Vitale, P., Pérez-Rodríguez, P., Fernandes, S. B., Ortiz, R., & Crossa, J. · Nature Communications, 2026.
Optimizing population simulations to accurately parallel empirical data for digital breeding
Burns, M. J., della Coletta, R., Fernandes, S. B., Bohn, M. O., Lipka, A. E., & Hirsch, C. N. · Crop Science, 2026.
High-throughput screen of NPQ in sorghum shows highly polygenic architecture of photoprotection
Vath, R. L., Fernandes, S. B., Monier, B., Głowacka, K., Walter, J., Lipka, A. E., Ferguson, J., Bernacchi, C. J., Pederson, T., & Kromdijk, J. · Plant-Environment Interactions, 2026.
Genomic prediction and association mapping of early-season flood tolerance in soybean
Vieira, C. C., Wu, C., Harrison, D., Marmo, R., Florez-Palacios, L., Acuna, A., Rogers, D., Fernandes, S. B., Fernandes, I., Shannon, G., Ye, H., & Nguyen, H. T. · The Plant Genome, 2025.
Improving multi-trait genomic prediction efficiency through the incorporation of synthetic traits selected based on co-heritability
Upadhyay, A., Azam, R., Yuan, M., Ivanovic, S., Ferguson, J. N., Paul, R. E., Koyejo, O., El-Kebir, M., Lipka, A. E., Leakey, A. D. B., & Fernandes, S. B. · bioRxiv, 2025.
Realized genetic gain with reciprocal recurrent selection in a Eucalyptus breeding program
Chaves, S. F. S., Dias, L. A. S., Alves, R. S., Ferreira, F. M., Araújo, M. S., Resende, M. D. V., Takahashi, E. K., Souza, J. E., Leite, F. P., Fernandes, S. B., & Dias, K. O. G. · Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2024.
Genome-wide association insights into the genomic regions controlling vegetative and oil production traits in Acrocomia aculeata
Couto, E. G. O., Morales-Marroquín, J. A., Alves-Pereira, A., Fernandes, S. B., Colombo, C. A., de Azevedo-Filho, J. A., Carvalho, C. R. L., & Zucchi, M. I. · BMC Plant Biology, 2024.
Rethinking Bayesian optimization with Gaussian processes: Insights from hyperspectral trait search
Azam, R., Koyejo, S., Fernandes, S. B., El-Kebir, M., Leakey, A. D. B., & Lipka, A. · NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop, 2023.
Importance of genetic architecture in marker selection decisions for genomic prediction
della Coletta, R., Fernandes, S. B., Monnahan, P. J., Mikel, M. A., Bohn, M. O., Lipka, A. E., & Hirsch, C. N. · Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2023.
