Plant breeders face multiple global challenges that affect food security, productivity,
accessibility, and nutritional quality. One major challenge for plant breeders is developing …

Key message The integration of new technologies into public plant breeding programs can
make a powerful step change in agricultural productivity when aligned with principles of …

Abstract 'Speed breeding'(SB) shortens the breeding cycle and accelerates crop research
through rapid generation advancement. SB can be carried out in numerous ways, one of …

Breeding new and high performing cultivars with market‐preferred traits take more than 10
years in the absence of an integrated pre‐breeding programme. During the early phases of …

The rate of annual yield increases for major staple crops must more than double relative to
current levels in order to feed a predicted global population of 9 billion by 2050. Controlled …

Classical plant breeding was extremely successful in generating high yielding crop varieties.
Yet, in modern crops, the long domestication process has impoverished the genetic diversity …

Gynogenesis is an asexual mode of reproduction common to animals and plants, in which
stimuli from the sperm cell trigger the development of the unfertilized egg cell into a haploid …

Somatic embryogenesis is a form of induced plant cell totipotency where embryos develop
from somatic or vegetative cells in the absence of fertilization. Somatic embryogenesis can …

Plant breeding and improvements in agronomic practice are making a consistent
contribution to increasing global crop production year upon year. However, the rate of yield …

Doubled haploid technology using inducer lines carrying mutations in Zm PLA1/MTL/NLD
and Zm DMP,,–has revolutionized traditional maize breeding. Zm PLA1/MTL/NLD is …