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 …

Although hybrid crop varieties are among the most popular agricultural innovations, the
rationale for hybrid crop breeding is sometimes misunderstood. Hybrid breeding is slower …

With an expected 9 billion people by 2050 and average income on the rise in the developing
world, meeting future food demand will be a challenge. Climate change, urbanisation and …

As one of the important concepts in conventional quantitative genetics and breeding, genetic
gain can be defined as the amount of increase in performance that is achieved annually …

Highlights•New crop designs capitalize on over half a century of physiological
research.•Remote sensing permits evaluation of genetic resources for complex trait …

To address the multiple challenges to food security posed by global climate change,
population growth and rising incomes, plant breeders are developing new crop varieties that …

Forest tree breeding has been successful at delivering genetically improved material for
multiple traits based on recurrent cycles of selection, mating, and testing. However, long …

Although long-term genetic gain has been achieved through increasing use of modern
breeding methods and technologies, the rate of genetic gain needs to be accelerated to …

Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) is one of the oldest cultivated plants purported to have
unique medicinal properties. However, scientific research of cannabis has been restricted by …

The breeding of forest trees is only a few decades old, and is a much more complicated,
longer, and expensive endeavor than the breeding of agricultural crops. One breeding cycle …