A comparison between crop domestication, classical plant breeding, and genetic engineering

By P. Gepts. 2002

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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• The Future of Plant Breeding (2006, background): “A direct offshoot of these more basic approaches, genetic engineering is presented erroneously as a speedier, more precise plant breeding alternative, whereas genetic engineering is simply another way of generating genetic diversity at the onset of a plant breeding cycle (Gepts, 2002).”
• Growing Plantation Forests (2010, background): “without major disasters of this type (Gepts 2002; Miller 2010).”
• GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: CURRENT STATUS AND RECOMMENDATIONS1 (2005, background): “Plant, animal, and microbial breeding consist of three major phases: 1) assembling or generating new genetic diversity, 2) selecting and testing different genotypes to identify superior varieties, and 3) the release, distribution, and commercialization of new progeny (e.g., Gepts 2002).”
• The use of wild relatives in crop improvement: a survey of developments over the last 20 years (2007, background): “However, it has been noted that the speed of introduction of new genes by genetic engineering, as compared to classical breeding, is overstated (Gepts 2002), due to the lack of precision in the integration point of the introduced gene requiring extensive testing of progeny, and the additional…”
• Crop Domestication as a Long‐Term Selection Experiment (2010, unknown): “…(25-77 ) 4 Poncet et al. 1998, 2000 Common bean (2n = 22) Selfing 2.2 23 (12-53) 45 (18-69) 3 Koinange et al. 1996 Rice (2n = 24) Selfing 3.7 14 (7-60) 41 (16-72) 5 Xiong et al. 1999 Sunflower (2n = 34) Outcrossing 4.3 12 (3-68) NAy 13 Burke et al. 2002 z Modified from Gepts 2002 y Not available”
• Genome Editing of Plants (2017, background): “…crop plants began approximately 10,000 years ago by selecting for increased seeds per inflorescence, increased seedling vigor, reduced seed dormancy and dispersal/shatter, and altered plant architecture such as compact/dwarf growth and reduced branching/tillering (Gepts, 2002; Meyer et al., 2012).”
• Can improvement in photosynthesis increase crop yields? (2006, background): “Time is still required to bulk up the population of the transformed genotype, but several years are still gained (reviewed by Gepts 2002).”
• Plant Genetic Resources Conservation and Utilization: The Accomplishments and Future of a Societal Insurance Policy (2006, background): “However, although the potential benefits are frequently touted, the specific number of traits that have actually been commercialized remains very limited for a variety of reasons, including the current lack of knowledge about actual genes (and their interactions) underlying major agronomic traits, t”
• Plant Genetic Resources: Selected Issues from Genetic Erosion to Genetic Engineering (2008, background): “It should be emphasized here that the major function of transgenic technologies is not the creation of new cultivars but the generation of new gene combinations that can be used in breeding programs (Gepts, 2002).”