Breeding crops to feed 10 billion.

Hickey, Lee T; N Hafeez, Amber; Robinson, Hannah; Jackson, Scott A; Leal-Bertioli, Soraya C M; Tester, Mark; Gao, Caixia; Godwin, Ian D et al. · Nat Biotechnol · 2019

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Abstract

Crop improvements can help us to meet the challenge of feeding a population of 10 billion, but can we breed better varieties fast enough? Technologies such as genotyping, marker-assisted selection, high-throughput phenotyping, genome editing, genomic selection and de novo domestication could be galvanized by using speed breeding to enable plant breeders to keep pace with a changing environment and ever-increasing human population.

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