Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security.

Alseekh, Saleh; Klemmer, Annabella; Yan, Jianbing; Guo, Tingting; Fernie, Alisdair R · Nat Commun · 2025

review · Level V

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Abstract

The dual challenges of global population explosion and environmental deterioration represent major hurdles for 21<sup>st</sup> Century agriculture culminating in an unprecedented demand for food security. In this Review, we revisit historical concepts of plasticity and canalization before integrating them with contemporary studies of genotype-environment interactions (G×E) that are currently being carried out at the genome-wide level. In doing so we address both fundamental questions regarding G×E and potential strategies to best secure yields in both current and future climate scenarios.

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