Genomics-assisted breeding – A revolutionary strategy for crop improvement

Autor: Peng-fei LENG, Thomas Lübberstedt, Ming-liang XU
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Integrative Agriculture, Vol 16, Iss 12, Pp 2674-2685 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2095-3119
DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(17)61813-6
Popis: Food shortages arise more frequently owing to unpredictable crop yield losses caused by biotic and abiotic stresses. With advances in molecular biology and marker technology, a new era of molecular breeding has emerged that has greatly accelerated the pace of plant breeding. High-throughput genotyping technology and phenotyping platforms have enabled large-scale marker-trait association analysis, such as genome-wide association studies, to precisely dissect the genetic architecture of plant traits. Large-scale mapping of agronomically important quantitative trait loci, gene cloning and characterization, mining of elite alleles/haplotypes, exploitation of natural variations, and genomic selection have paved the way towards genomics-assisted breeding (GAB). With the availability of more and more informative genomic datasets, GAB would become a promising technique to expedite the breeding cycle for crop improvement.
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