Breeding Perennial Grain Crops

By T. S. Cox, M. Bender, C. Picone, D. V. Tassel, J. Holland, E. C. Brummer, Bengt Zöller, Andrew H. Paterson, Wes Jackson. 2002

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Environmental Chemistry, Plant Science

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Physiological traits and cereal germplasm for sustainable agricultural systems (2007, background): “This is not unreasonable as some of our ancestral cereals were perennial and efforts by several groups are attempting this (eg, Cox et al., 2002).”
Crop Species Diversity Affects Productivity and Weed Suppression in Perennial Polycultures under Two Management Strategies (2008, background): “Perennial polycultures may also be used as grain crops for human food or animal feed, and perennial grains are being developed in the United States ( Cox et al., 2002; DeHaan et al., 2005) and elsewhere (Sacks et al., 2003; Weik et al., 2002).”
Agropyron and Psathyrostachys (2011, background): “Triticeae Species for Bread Making Because perennial wheat is not yet a reality, several perennial Triticeae species have been exploited and/or improved for using their grains to make bread (Cox et al. 2002a, b).”
A preliminary whole-farm economic analysis of perennial wheat in an Australian dryland farming system (2008, background): “Perennial grains might be developed from either domestication of wild species with potential or hybridization of currently grown crops with perennial relatives (Cox et al., 2002).”
Intercropping with legume for agroecological cropping systems: Complementarity and facilitation processes and the importance of soil microorganisms. A review (2017, background): “More recent research programs concern the domestication and breeding of perennial grains (Cox et al., 2002, 2006; DeHaan et al., 2014; Gazza et al., 2015), suggesting growing interest and knowledge in perennial approaches.”
Hybridization of invasive Phragmites australis with a native subspecies in North America (2009, background): “Numerous examples of interspecific hybridizations in the grasses are well described (Angelo and Boufford 1998; Cox et al. 2002).”
Progress in breeding perennial grains (2010, background): “In the taxa studied to date, plants derived from interspecific hybrids tend to be perennial only when the expected proportion of their total genome derived from a perennial parent is at least 50% (Cox et al. 2002).”
Genetic improvement of C4 grasses as cellulosic biofuel feedstocks (2009, background): “Perennial crops are essential to bringing marginal lands into sustainable biomass production (Wagoner 1990; Scheinost et al. 2001; Cox et al. 2002), maximizing ecosystem productivity (Field 2001) and minimizing losses of topsoil (Gantzer et al. 1990; Pimentel et al. 1995), water, and nutrients…”