Improvement of cool-season food legumes for adaptation to intercropping systems: breeding faba bean for intercropping with durum wheat as a case study.

Autor:	Abou Khater L; Biodiversity and Crop Improvement Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Terbol, Lebanon., Maalouf F; Biodiversity and Crop Improvement Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Terbol, Lebanon., Balech R; Biodiversity and Crop Improvement Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Terbol, Lebanon., He Y; Institute of Food Crop, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Science, Kunming, China., Zong X; Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China., Rubiales D; Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Córdoba, Spain., Kumar S; Biodiversity and Crop Improvement Program, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), New Delhi, India.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in plant science [Front Plant Sci] 2024 May 16; Vol. 15, pp. 1368509. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 16 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.3389/fpls.2024.1368509
Abstrakt:	Although the transition toward a more sustainable agricultural system is sparking the interest of scientists and farmers around the globe, breeding programs are still focusing on optimizing cultivars intended for the monoculture system, and most cultivars available on the market are not suitable for intercropping. The incorporation of versatile cool-season food legumes (CSFLs) in the intercropping system is a promising way toward more diversified and sustainable cropping systems. However, as the selection of good-performing cultivars under sole cropping does not always lead to a good performance in intercropping, the development of an alternative breeding scheme for intercropping is now a necessity. The case study of faba bean-wheat intercropping was used to select for traits associated with better performance of faba bean, resulting in identifying the combined grain yield, 100-seed weight, number of pods per plant, and canopy height as key traits for faba bean-wheat intercropping suitability. Incorporating these traits in the breeding programs would be the cornerstone of the prospective transition. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision. (Copyright © 2024 Abou Khater, Maalouf, Balech, He, Zong, Rubiales and Kumar.)
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