Next-generation breeding strategies for climate-ready crops

A Razzaq, P Kaur, N Akhter, SH Wani… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is a threat to global food security due to the reduction of crop productivity
around the globe. Food security is a matter of concern for stakeholders and policymakers as …

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

BM Campbell, DJ Beare, EM Bennett… - Ecology and society, 2017 - JSTOR
We explore the role of agriculture in destabilizing the Earth system at the planetary scale,
through examining nine planetary boundaries, or “safe limits”: land-system change …

The pangenome of hexaploid bread wheat

JD Montenegro, AA Golicz, PE Bayer… - The Plant …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is an increasing understanding that variation in gene presence–absence plays an
important role in the heritability of agronomic traits; however, there have been relatively few …

A gain-of-function allele of a DREB transcription factor gene ameliorates drought tolerance in wheat

F Mei, B Chen, L Du, S Li, D Zhu, N Chen… - The Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Drought is a major environmental factor limiting wheat production worldwide. However, the
genetic components underlying wheat drought tolerance are largely unknown. Here, we …

New approaches to improve crop tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses

M Gonzalez Guzman, F Cellini… - Physiologia …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment
of diverse approaches for achieving more stress‐tolerant and climate‐flexible crops and …

A high-contiguity Brassica nigra genome localizes active centromeres and defines the ancestral Brassica genome

S Perumal, CS Koh, L **, M Buchwaldt, EE Higgins… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
It is only recently, with the advent of long-read sequencing technologies, that we are
beginning to uncover previously uncharted regions of complex and inherently recursive …

Harnessing crop wild diversity for climate change adaptation

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

Bambara groundnut: an exemplar underutilised legume for resilience under climate change

S Mayes, WK Ho, HH Chai, X Gao, AC Kundy… - Planta, 2019 - Springer
Main conclusion Bambara groundnut has the potential to be used to contribute more the
climate change ready agriculture. The requirement for nitrogen fixing, stress tolerant …

Introgressiomics: a new approach for using crop wild relatives in breeding for adaptation to climate change

J Prohens, P Gramazio, M Plazas, H Dempewolf… - Euphytica, 2017 - Springer
The need to boost agricultural production in the coming decades in a climate change
scenario requires new approaches for the development of new crop varieties that are more …