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Recently, Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a revolutionary field, providing a great opportunity in shaping modern crop breeding, and is extensively used indoors for plant science. Advances in crop phenomics, enviromics, together with the other "omics" approaches are paving ways for elucidating the detailed complex biological mechanisms that motivate crop functions in response to environmental trepidations. These "omics" approaches have provided plant researchers with precise tools to evaluate the important agronomic traits for larger-sized germplasm at a reduced time interval in the early growth stages. However, the big data and the complex relationships within impede the understanding of the complex mechanisms behind genes driving the agronomic-trait formations. AI brings huge computational power and many new tools and strategies for future breeding. The present review will encompass how applications of AI technology, utilized for current breeding practice, assist to solve the problem in high-throughput phenotyping and gene functional analysis, and how advances in AI technologies bring new opportunities for future breeding, to make envirotyping data widely utilized in breeding. Furthermore, in the current breeding methods, linking genotype to phenotype remains a massive challenge and impedes the optimal application of high-throughput field phenotyping, genomics, and enviromics. In this review, we elaborate on how AI will be the preferred tool to increase the accuracy in high-throughput crop phenotyping, genotyping, and envirotyping data; moreover, we explore the developing approaches and challenges for multiomics big computing data integration. Therefore, the integration of AI with "omics" tools can allow rapid gene identification and eventually accelerate crop-improvement programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sudha Sitharaman and Anindita Chakrabarti, eds. 2020. Religion and Secularities: Reconfiguring Islam in Contemporary India. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. 240 pp. Rs. 795 (hardback). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures i is a new addition to his existing output of writings on the emerging field of study called "postcolonial utopianism." In 2012, Ashcroft published the basic theoretical ideas of this new field of study ("postcolonial utopianism") as the "Introduction" to I Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal. i There Ashcroft had posited that postcolonial literary writing has always been characterized by an irrepressible hope. Apart from the clear-cut discussion of utopianism in postcolonial literatures, Ashcroft also elaborates on the concept of utopia (and other terms related to it) in much detail. [Extracted from the article]