Improvement of crop varieties can be a powerful strategy for addressing food, nutrition, and
climate challenges in the Global South if it is guided by market intelligence. We conducted a …

Feeding 10 billion people sustainably by 2050 in the era of slow genetic progress has
spurred urgent calls to bring more crops per unit time. Over the last century, crop …

Continued increases in genetic gain demonstrate the success of established public and
private plant breeding programs. Nevertheless, in the last two decades, a growing body of …

Genetic improvement is crucial for ensuring food security globally. Indeed, plant breeding
has contributed significantly to increasing the productivity of major crops, including rice, over …

Rice is an important diet source for the majority of the world's population, and meeting the
growing need for rice requires significant improvements at the production level. Hybrid rice …

Genetic improvement has been given high priority in rice research for development in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper provides an overview of historical efforts of genetic …

Rice genetic improvement is a key component of achieving and maintaining food security in
Asia and Africa in the face of growing populations and climate change. In this effort, the …

Develo** high-yielding rice varieties is critical to ensure global food security. To date,
selection of promising genotypes is based on empirical evaluation for grain yield, but the …

Accelerating the rate of genetic gain has in recent years become a key objective in plant
breeding for the Global South, building on the availability of new data technologies and …

Key message Estimating genetic gains and formulating a future salinity elite breeding panel
for rice pave the way for develo** better high-yielding salinity tolerant lines with enhanced …