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Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 60:101986
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- To develop more productive and resilient crops that are capable of feeding 10 billion people by 2050, we must accelerate the rate of genetic improvement in plant breeding programs. Speed breeding manipulates the growing environment by regulating light and temperature for the purpose of rapid generation advance. Protocols are now available for a range of short-day and long-day species and the approach is highly compatible with other cutting-edge breeding tools such as genomic selection. Here, we highlight how speed breeding hijacks biological processes for applied plant breeding outcomes and provide a case study examining wheat growth and development under speed breeding conditions. The establishment of speed breeding facilities worldwide is expected to provide benefits for capacity building, discovery research, pre-breeding, and plant breeding to accelerate the development of productive and robust crops.
- Subjects :
- Crops, Agricultural
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Plant growth
Plant Development
food and beverages
Capacity building
Genomics
Plant Science
Agricultural engineering
Biology
01 natural sciences
Plant Breeding
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Plant breeding
Triticum
Genomic selection
010606 plant biology & botany
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Details
- ISSN :
- 13695266
- Volume :
- 60
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Plant Biology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d810ba5d3e73e34ed038d13df129ff8c