“…While the literature touching on drought in barley is extensive (over 600 articles in PubMed), there has been a paucity of studies examining germplasm sets (10s or 100s of lines), rather than pairs of lines, with precision phenotyping such as is possible on the PlantArray platform. GWA, quantitative trait (QTL), and genomic prediction (GP) studies for yield and biomass or their components in pot- or field-grown barley populations under drought ( Moualeu-Ngangué et al., 2020 ; Li et al., 2022 ; Ogrodowicz et al., 2023 ; Abdelghany et al., 2024 ), or on traits connected to drought tolerance or yield ( Honsdorf et al., 2014 ; Dhanagond et al., 2019 ; Luo et al., 2020 ; Fusi et al., 2022 ; Puglisi et al., 2022 ) are more extensive, however. We anticipate that current collaborative work applying nested association-mapping populations, field and precision phenotyping, ideotyping, crop modeling, GWA, and multi-omic approaches will allow us to integrate the results reported here, based on the aforementioned background, into a practical framework for breeding improved drought tolerance and resilience into barley and other crops.…”