Conventional and molecular techniques from simple breeding to speed breeding in crop plants: recent advances and future outlook

S Ahmar, RA Gill, KH Jung, A Faheem… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

Next-generation phenotyping: requirements and strategies for enhancing our understanding of genotype–phenotype relationships and its relevance to crop …

JN Cobb, G DeClerck, A Greenberg, R Clark… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2013 - Springer
More accurate and precise phenotyping strategies are necessary to empower high-
resolution linkage mapping and genome-wide association studies and for training genomic …

Automated assembly scaffolding using RagTag elevates a new tomato system for high-throughput genome editing

M Alonge, L Lebeigle, M Kirsche, K Jenike, S Ou… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Advancing crop genomics requires efficient genetic systems enabled by high-quality
personalized genome assemblies. Here, we introduce RagTag, a toolset for automating …

Rapid customization of Solanaceae fruit crops for urban agriculture

CT Kwon, J Heo, ZH Lemmon, Y Capua… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cultivation of crops in urban environments might reduce the environmental impact of food
production,,–. However, lack of available land in cities and a need for rapid crop cycling, to …

A cascade of arabinosyltransferases controls shoot meristem size in tomato

C Xu, KL Liberatore, CA MacAlister, Z Huang, YH Chu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Shoot meristems of plants are composed of stem cells that are continuously replenished
through a classical feedback circuit involving the homeobox WUSCHEL (WUS) gene and …

Automated assembly scaffolding elevates a new tomato system for high-throughput genome editing

M Alonge, L Lebeigle, M Kirsche, S Aganezov, X Wang… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Advancing crop genomics requires efficient genetic systems enabled by high-quality
personalized genome assemblies. Here, we introduce RagTag, a toolset for automating …

Domestication and breeding of tomatoes: what have we gained and what can we gain in the future?

Y Bai, P Lindhout - Annals of botany, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Background It has been shown that a large variation is present and exploitable from wild
Solanum species but most of it is still untapped. Considering the thousands of Solanum …

The flowering gene SINGLE FLOWER TRUSS drives heterosis for yield in tomato

U Krieger, ZB Lippman, D Zamir - Nature genetics, 2010 - nature.com
Intercrossing different varieties of plants frequently produces hybrid offspring with superior
vigor and increased yields, in a poorly understood phenomenon known as heterosis,. One …

Genome mapping and molecular breeding of tomato

MR Foolad - International journal of plant genomics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, is the second most consumed vegetable
worldwide and a well‐studied crop species in terms of genetics, genomics, and breeding. It …

Trait discovery and editing in tomato

C Rothan, I Diouf, M Causse - The Plant Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), which is used for both processing and fresh markets, is a
major crop species that is the top ranked vegetable produced over the world. Tomato is also …