Sustainable agriculture in the future will depend on crops that are tolerant to biotic and
abiotic stresses, require minimal input of water and nutrients and can be cultivated with a …

Highlights•The new breeding strategy, de novo domestication, has emerged and been
demonstrated by pioneer work.•New agricultural challenges drive the shift of breeding …

Breeding future crops to feed the world through de novo domestication | Nature Communications
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Sustainable agriculture in response to increasing demands for food depends on
development of high-yielding crops with high nutritional value that require minimal …

To match predicted population growth, annual food production should be doubled by 2050.
This is not achievable by current agronomical and breeding practices, due to the impact of …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

In the interest of diversifying the global food system, improving human nutrition, and making
agriculture more sustainable, there have been many proposals to domesticate wild plants or …

The genetic diversity of our crop plants has been substantially reduced during the process of
domestication and breeding. This reduction in diversity necessarily constrains our ability to …

Research related to crop domestication has been transformed by technologies and
discoveries in the genome sciences as well as information-related sciences that are …

The domestication of new crops would promote agricultural diversity and could provide a
solution to many of the problems associated with intensive agriculture. We suggest here that …