Breeding custom-designed crops for improved drought adaptation
The current pace of crop improvement is inadequate to feed the burgeoning human population by 2050. Higher, more stable, and sustainable crop production is required against a backdrop of drought stress, which causes significant losses in crop yields. Tailoring crops for drought adaptation may hold the key to address these challenges and provide resilient production systems for future harvests. Understanding the genetic and molecular landscape of the functionality of alleles associated with adaptive traits will make designer crop breeding the prospective approach for crop improvement. Here, we highlight the potential of genomics technologies combined with crop physiology for high-throughput identification of the genetic architecture of key drought-adaptive traits and explore innovative genomic breeding strategies for designing future crops.
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2021
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| Subjects: | AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, Context Dependent Optimization, Drought Physiology, Genome Editing, Genomic Breeding, Root System Architecture, Speed Breeding, OPTIMIZATION METHODS, DROUGHT, GENE EDITING, PLANT BREEDING, ROOT SYSTEMS, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10883/21674 |
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