Breeding Tools

GBreed: A web-based application for genomic prediction

Liang, Shizhe, Khaled M. Rasheed, Ethan M. Pickering, and Zenglu Li. 2026. GBreed: A Web Application for Intuitive, Interactive and Efficient Genomic Predictive Breeding. Plant Methods

SHP Buddy, A QGIS plugin for generating shapefiles

Burner, Nathaniel, Donna K. Harris, and Zenglu Li. 2025. SHP Buddy: A QGIS plugin for generating shapefiles to support remote sensing in plant breeding and agronomic experiments. Plant Methods, 21(1), 17. DOI: 10.1186/s13007-025-01336-1

Matti, a QGIS plugin for phenotyping soybean maturity

Burner, Nathaniel, Leonardo M. Bastos, and Zenglu Li. 2026. Developing and Deploying a UAS-Based Phenotyping Platform for Maturity to Support Soybean Breeding. The Plant Phenome Journal, 9(1), e70070. DOI: 10.1002/ppj2.70070

An image analysis system for phenotyping plant diseases

McDonald, Samuel, James Buck, and Zenglu Li. 2022. Automated, image-based disease measurement for phenotyping resistance to soybean frogeye leaf spot. Plant Methods 18: 103 DOI: 10.1186/s13007-022-00934-7

An R package for parent-offspring tests

Abdel-Haleem, Hussein, Pengsheng Ji, Roger Boerma, and Zenglu Li. 2013. An R package for SNP marker-based parent-offspring tests. Plant Methods 9: 44 DOI: 10.1186/1746-4811-9-44