Breeding future crops to feed the world through de novo domestication | Nature Communications
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Highlights•The new breeding strategy, de novo domestication, has emerged and been
demonstrated by pioneer work.•New agricultural challenges drive the shift of breeding …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

The classic domestication scenario for grains and fruits has been portrayed as the lucky
fixation of major-effect “domestication genes.” Characterization of these genes plus recent …

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 …

The history of agriculture can be viewed as a series of key events, such as the Neolithic
Revolution, post-domestication expansion of agriculture to new regions, secondary …