Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops

Y Benitez-Alfonso, BK Soanes, S Zimba, B Sinanaj… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Climate change threatens global food and nutritional security through negative effects on
crop growth and agricultural productivity. Many countries have adopted ambitious climate …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable agro-food systems for addressing climate change and food security

A Wijerathna-Yapa, R Pathirana - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite world food production kee** pace with population growth because of the Green
Revolution, the United Nations (UN) State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 …

[HTML][HTML] Designing future crops: genomics-assisted breeding comes of age

RK Varshney, A Bohra, J Yu, A Graner, Q Zhang… - Trends in plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Artificial intelligence in plant breeding

MA Farooq, S Gao, MA Hassan, Z Huang, A Rasheed… - Trends in Genetics, 2024 - cell.com
Harnessing cutting-edge technologies to enhance crop productivity is a pivotal goal in
modern plant breeding. Artificial intelligence (AI) is renowned for its prowess in big data …

The next era of crop domestication starts now

AS Krug, E BM Drummond, DL Van Tassel… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Current food systems are challenged by relying on a few input-intensive, staple crops. The
prioritization of yield and the loss of diversity during the recent history of domestication has …

Addressing research bottlenecks to crop productivity

M Reynolds, OK Atkin, M Bennett, M Cooper… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Asymmetry of investment in crop research leads to knowledge gaps and lost opportunities to
accelerate genetic gain through identifying new sources and combinations of traits and …

Genomics-informed prebreeding unlocks the diversity in genebanks for wheat improvement

AW Schulthess, SM Kale, F Liu, Y Zhao, N Philipp… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The great efforts spent in the maintenance of past diversity in genebanks are rationalized by
the potential role of plant genetic resources (PGR) in future crop improvement—a concept …

How could the use of crop wild relatives in breeding increase the adaptation of crops to marginal environments?

JP Renzi, CJ Coyne, J Berger, E von Wettberg… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alongside the use of fertilizer and chemical control of weeds, pests, and diseases modern
breeding has been very successful in generating cultivars that have increased agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Advancing crop genomics from lab to field

MD Purugganan, SA Jackson - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Crop genomics remains a key element in ensuring scientific progress to secure global food
security. It has been two decades since the sequence of the first plant genome, that of …