TY - JOUR
T1 - Future-proof crops
T2 - challenges and strategies for climate resilience improvement
AU - Kissoudis, Christos
AU - van de Wiel, Clemens
AU - Visser, R.G.F.
AU - van der Linden, Gerard
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Breeding for stress-resilient crops strongly depends on technological and biological advancements that have provided a wealth of information on genetic variants and their contribution to stress tolerance. In the context of the upcoming challenges for agriculture due to climate change, such as prolonged and/or increased stress intensities, CO2 increase and stress combinations, hierarchizing this information is key to accelerating crop improvement towards sustained or even increased productivity. We propose traits with high scalability to yield and crop performance that can be targeted for improvement and provide examples of recent discoveries with potential applicability in breeding. Critical to success is the integrated analysis of the phenotypes of genetic variants across different environmental variables using modelling approaches and high-throughput phenotyping.
AB - Breeding for stress-resilient crops strongly depends on technological and biological advancements that have provided a wealth of information on genetic variants and their contribution to stress tolerance. In the context of the upcoming challenges for agriculture due to climate change, such as prolonged and/or increased stress intensities, CO2 increase and stress combinations, hierarchizing this information is key to accelerating crop improvement towards sustained or even increased productivity. We propose traits with high scalability to yield and crop performance that can be targeted for improvement and provide examples of recent discoveries with potential applicability in breeding. Critical to success is the integrated analysis of the phenotypes of genetic variants across different environmental variables using modelling approaches and high-throughput phenotyping.
U2 - 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.01.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84957651525
SN - 1369-5266
VL - 30
SP - 47
EP - 56
JO - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
JF - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
ER -
