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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 607-630Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2021.03.011
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- Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research
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The asymmetry of investment in crop research has resulted in knowledge gaps, but by focusing on relatively underrepresented research areas with the potential to boost productivity and leveraging previous knowledge, it is possible to improve crop breeding and management decisions, making it easier to explore crop genetic resources and enhance breeding strategies.
Asymmetry of investment in crop research leads to knowledge gaps and lost opportunities to accelerate genetic gain through identifying new sources and combinations of traits and alleles. On the basis of consultation with scientists from most major seed companies, we identified several research areas with three common features: (i) relatively underrepresented in the literature; (ii) high probability of boosting productivity in a wide range of crops and environments; and (iii) could be researched in 'precompetitive' space, leveraging previous knowledge, and thereby improving models that guide crop breeding and management decisions. Areas identified included research into hormones, recombination, respiration, roots, and source-sink, which, along with new opportunities in phenomics, genomics, and bioinformatics, make it more feasible to explore crop genetic resources and improve breeding strategies.
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