Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles.
Curr Opin Plant Biol
; 60: 101986, 2021 04.
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| ID: mdl-33418268
To develop more productive and resilient crops that are capable of feeding 10 billion people by 2050, we must accelerate the rate of genetic improvement in plant breeding programs. Speed breeding manipulates the growing environment by regulating light and temperature for the purpose of rapid generation advance. Protocols are now available for a range of short-day and long-day species and the approach is highly compatible with other cutting-edge breeding tools such as genomic selection. Here, we highlight how speed breeding hijacks biological processes for applied plant breeding outcomes and provide a case study examining wheat growth and development under speed breeding conditions. The establishment of speed breeding facilities worldwide is expected to provide benefits for capacity building, discovery research, pre-breeding, and plant breeding to accelerate the development of productive and robust crops.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Produtos Agrícolas
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Melhoramento Vegetal
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Curr Opin Plant Biol
Assunto da revista:
BOTANICA
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Reino Unido