Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have provided breeders with several'game-changing'traits or
genes that have boosted crop resilience and global agricultural production. Advances in …

De novo domestication: an alternative route toward new crops for the future

AR Fernie, J Yan - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering quantitative trait variation for crop improvement by genome editing

D Rodríguez-Leal, ZH Lemmon, J Man, ME Bartlett… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Major advances in crop yields are needed in the coming decades. However, plant breeding
is currently limited by incremental improvements in quantitative traits that often rely on …

The sunflower genome provides insights into oil metabolism, flowering and Asterid evolution

H Badouin, J Gouzy, CJ Grassa, F Murat, SE Staton… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The domesticated sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., is a global oil crop that has promise for
climate change adaptation, because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of …

Past and future use of wild relatives in crop breeding

H Dempewolf, G Baute, J Anderson, B Kilian… - Crop …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wild species related to agricultural crops (crop wild relatives, or CWR) can increase the
adaptive capacity of agricultural systems around the world. They represent a large pool of …

Nanofertilizers and nanopesticides for agriculture

H Chhipa - Environmental chemistry letters, 2017 - Springer
The excess use of mineral fertilizers and unsafe pesticides has led to pollution and serious
health issues. Nanoscience may solve those issues by providing nanomaterials of higher …

Current understanding of the pathways of flavonoid biosynthesis in model and crop plants

T Tohge, LP de Souza, AR Fernie - Journal of experimental …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Flavonoids are a signature class of secondary metabolites formed from a relatively simple
collection of scaffolds. They are extensively decorated by chemical reactions including …

Back into the wild—Apply untapped genetic diversity of wild relatives for crop improvement

H Zhang, N Mittal, LJ Leamy, O Barazani… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

The genomic basis of geographic differentiation and fiber improvement in cultivated cotton

S He, G Sun, X Geng, W Gong, P Dai, Y Jia, W Shi… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Large-scale genomic surveys of crop germplasm are important for understanding the
genetic architecture of favorable traits. The genomic basis of geographic differentiation and …

Adaptive introgression: a plant perspective

A Suarez-Gonzalez, C Lexer… - Biology letters, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Introgression is emerging as an important source of novel genetic variation, alongside
standing variation and mutation. It is adaptive when such introgressed alleles are …