Breeding custom-designed crops for improved drought adaptation
Varshney, R.K.
Breeding custom-designed crops for improved drought adaptation - USA : Wiley, 2021.
Peer review Open Access
The current pace of crop improvement is inadequate to feed the burgeoning human population by 2050. Higher, more stable, and sustainable crop production is required against a backdrop of drought stress, which causes significant losses in crop yields. Tailoring crops for drought adaptation may hold the key to address these challenges and provide resilient production systems for future harvests. Understanding the genetic and molecular landscape of the functionality of alleles associated with adaptive traits will make designer crop breeding the prospective approach for crop improvement. Here, we highlight the potential of genomics technologies combined with crop physiology for high-throughput identification of the genetic architecture of key drought-adaptive traits and explore innovative genomic breeding strategies for designing future crops.
Text in English
2641-6573 (Online)
https://doi.org/10.1002/ggn2.202100017
Optimization Methods
Drought
Gene editing
Plant breeding
Root systems
Breeding custom-designed crops for improved drought adaptation - USA : Wiley, 2021.
Peer review Open Access
The current pace of crop improvement is inadequate to feed the burgeoning human population by 2050. Higher, more stable, and sustainable crop production is required against a backdrop of drought stress, which causes significant losses in crop yields. Tailoring crops for drought adaptation may hold the key to address these challenges and provide resilient production systems for future harvests. Understanding the genetic and molecular landscape of the functionality of alleles associated with adaptive traits will make designer crop breeding the prospective approach for crop improvement. Here, we highlight the potential of genomics technologies combined with crop physiology for high-throughput identification of the genetic architecture of key drought-adaptive traits and explore innovative genomic breeding strategies for designing future crops.
Text in English
2641-6573 (Online)
https://doi.org/10.1002/ggn2.202100017
Optimization Methods
Drought
Gene editing
Plant breeding
Root systems