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 …

Wild relatives of maize, rice, cotton, and soybean: treasure troves for tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses

J Mammadov, R Buyyarapu, SK Guttikonda… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Global food demand is expected to nearly double by 2050 due to an increase in the world's
population. The Green Revolution has played a key role in the past century by increasing …

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 …

Traditional and Modern Plant Breeding Methods with Examples in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

F Breseghello, ASG Coelho - Journal of agricultural and food …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Plant breeding can be broadly defined as alterations caused in plants as a result of their use
by humans, ranging from unintentional changes resulting from the advent of agriculture to …

Metabolomics and complementary techniques to investigate the plant phytochemical cosmos

H Tsugawa, A Rai, K Saito, R Nakabayashi - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Plants and their associated microbial communities are known to
produce millions of metabolites, a majority of which are still not characterized and are …

Current perspectives on introgression breeding in food legumes

A Pratap, A Das, S Kumar, S Gupta - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Food legumes are important for defeating malnutrition and sustaining agri-food systems
globally. Breeding efforts in legume crops have been largely confined to the exploitation of …

Harnessing knowledge from maize and rice domestication for new crop breeding

Q Chen, W Li, L Tan, F Tian - Molecular Plant, 2021 - cell.com
Crop domestication has fundamentally altered the course of human history, causing a shift
from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies and stimulating the rise of modern civilization …

Enhanced formation of aerenchyma and induction of a barrier to radial oxygen loss in adventitious roots of Zea nicaraguensis contribute to its waterlogging tolerance as compared with …

T Abiko, L Kotula, K Shiono, AI Malik… - Plant, Cell & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancement of oxygen transport from shoot to root tip by the formation of aerenchyma and
also a barrier to radial oxygen loss (ROL) in roots is common in waterlogging‐tolerant …

Genomics of gene banks: a case study in rice

SR McCouch, KL McNally, W Wang… - American journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Only a small fraction of the naturally occurring genetic diversity available in the world's
germplasm repositories has been explored to date, but this is expected to change with the …

Accelerating Breeding for Heat Tolerance in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.): An Integrated Approach

MAT Ayenan, A Danquah, P Hanson… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Heat stress is a major limiting factor for crop productivity. Tomato is highly sensitive to heat
stress, which can result in a total yield loss. To adapt to current and future heat stress, there …