Over the past decade, genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) has been instrumental in
harnessing the potential of modern genome resources and characterizing and exploiting …

Understanding the quantitative genetics of crops has been and will continue to be central to
maintaining and improving global food security. We outline four stages that plant breeding …

Genebanks hold comprehensive collections of cultivars, landraces and crop wild relatives of
all major food crops, but their detailed characterization has so far been limited to sparse core …

With the advent of rapid genotyping and next‐generation sequencing technologies, genome‐
wide association study (GWAS) has become a routine strategy for decoding genotype …

'Speed breeding'enables scientists to exploit gene bank accessions and mutant collections
for an unparalleled rapid gene discovery and gene deployment. Combining speed breeding …

Transgressive segregation and heterosis are the reasons that plant breeding works.
Molecular explanations for both phenomena have been suggested and play a contributing …

Heterosis (or hybrid vigor) has been widely used in crop seed breeding to improve many key
economic traits. Nevertheless, the genetic and molecular basis of this important …

Key message Recent technological advances in wheat genomics provide new opportunities
to uncover genetic variation in traits of breeding interest and enable genome-based …

There is an ongoing societal debate about plant breeding systems and their impact on
stakeholders in food systems. Hybrid breeding and hybrid seed have become controversial …

Key message The review outlines past failures, present status and future prospects of hybrid
wheat, and includes information on CMS/CHA/transgenic approaches for male sterility …