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Conventional and Molecular Techniques from Simple Breeding to Speed Breeding in Crop Plants: Recent Advances and Future Outlook

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21072590

Keywords

food security; food scarcity; conventional breeding; CRISPR/Cas9; CRISPR/Cpf1; high-throughput phenotyping; speed breeding

Funding

  1. National Key Research and Development Program [2018YFD0100601]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31650110476]
  3. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production
  4. Sino-German Research Project [GZ 1362]
  5. Science and Technology Department of Zhejiang Province [2016C02050-8]
  6. Next-Generation Bio Green 21 Program, Republic of Korea [PJ01325901, PJ01366401]
  7. Collaborative Genome Program of the Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology Promotion (KIMST) - Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) [20180430]

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In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding, the development of improved crop varieties is limited by the very long crop duration. Given the many phases of crossing, selection, and testing involved in the production of new plant varieties, it can take one or two decades to create a new cultivar. One possible way of alleviating food scarcity problems and increasing food security is to develop improved plant varieties rapidly. Traditional farming methods practiced since quite some time have decreased the genetic variability of crops. To improve agronomic traits associated with yield, quality, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses in crop plants, several conventional and molecular approaches have been used, including genetic selection, mutagenic breeding, somaclonal variations, whole-genome sequence-based approaches, physical maps, and functional genomic tools. However, recent advances in genome editing technology using programmable nucleases, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins have opened the door to a new plant breeding era. Therefore, to increase the efficiency of crop breeding, plant breeders and researchers around the world are using novel strategies such as speed breeding, genome editing tools, and high-throughput phenotyping. In this review, we summarize recent findings on several aspects of crop breeding to describe the evolution of plant breeding practices, from traditional to modern speed breeding combined with genome editing tools, which aim to produce crop generations with desired traits annually.

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