Campus Units
Agronomy
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Accepted Manuscript
Publication Date
12-2013
Journal or Book Title
Trends in Plant Science
Volume
18
Issue
12
First Page
667
Last Page
672
DOI
10.1016/j.tplants.2013.09.001
Abstract
The growing demand for food with limited arable land available necessitates that the yield of major food crops continues to increase over time. Advances in marker technology, predictive statistics, and breeding methodology have allowed for continued increases in crop performance through genetic improvement. However, one major bottleneck is the generation time of plants, which is biologically limited and has not been improved since the introduction of doubled haploid technology. In this opinion article, we propose to implement in vitro nurseries, which could substantially shorten generation time through rapid cycles of meiosis and mitosis. This could prove a useful tool for speeding up future breeding programs with the aim of sustainable food production.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Copyright Owner
Elsevier Ltd
Copyright Date
2013
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
De La Fuente, Gerald N.; Frei, Ursula K.; and Lubberstedt, Thomas, "Accelerating plant breeding" (2013). Agronomy Publications. 460.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/agron_pubs/460
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Comments
This is a manuscript of an article published as Gerald N.De La Fuente, Ursula K. Frei, and Thomas Lübberstedt. "Accelerating plant breeding." Trends in plant science 18, no. 12 (2013): 667-672. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2013.09.001. Posted with permission.