Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

A Bohra, B Kilian, S Sivasankar, M Caccamo… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
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 …

De novo domestication: an alternative route toward new crops for the future

AR Fernie, J Yan - Molecular plant, 2019 - cell.com
Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture

Z Tian, JW Wang, J Li, B Han - The Plant Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Enhancing crop diversity for food security in the face of climate uncertainty

A Zsögön, LEP Peres, Y Xiao, J Yan… - The plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

The next era of crop domestication starts now

AS Krug, E BM Drummond… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Current food systems are challenged by relying on a few input-intensive, staple crops. The
prioritization of yield and the loss of diversity during the recent history of domestication has …

Is the future of agriculture perennial? Imperatives and opportunities to reinvent agriculture by shifting from annual monocultures to perennial polycultures

TE Crews, W Carton, L Olsson - Global Sustainability, 2018 - cambridge.org
Non-technical summaryModern agriculture is associated with numerous environmental
predicaments, such as land degradation, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emission …

Sustainable agri-food systems: environment, economy, society, and policy

H El Bilali, C Strassner, T Ben Hassen - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

Accelerating the domestication of new crops: feasibility and approaches

JT Østerberg, W Xiang, LI Olsen, AK Edenbrandt… - Trends in Plant …, 2017 - cell.com
The domestication of new crops would promote agricultural diversity and could provide a
solution to many of the problems associated with intensive agriculture. We suggest here that …

What agriculture can learn from native ecosystems in building soil organic matter: a review

TE Crews, BE Rumsey - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Over the last century, researchers and practitioners with diverse backgrounds have
articulated the importance of improving soil organic matter (SOM) contents in agricultural …

The effects of domestication on secondary metabolite composition in legumes

YS Ku, CA Contador, MS Ng, J Yu, G Chung… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Legumes are rich in secondary metabolites, such as polyphenols, alkaloids, and saponins,
which are important defense compounds to protect the plant against herbivores and …