Breeding Technologies to Increase Crop Production in a Changing World

By Mark A. Tester, P. Langridge. Science, 2010

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Integrated soil–crop system management for food security (2011, background): “Since the mid-1980s in the United States and the 1990s in rapid developing countries, increasing attention has been given to research approaches that usemolecular genetics and biotechnology to produce higher-yielding or better-protected crop varieties (7, 8, 33).”
Energy Intensity of Agriculture and Food Systems (2011, background): “Crop breeding can similarly be an important avenue for improving resource-use efficiencies, including new varieties, conventional selection, as well as genetic engineering for traits that reduce losses to pests or allow crops to thrive under inclement conditions (147).”
Natural variations and genome-wide association studies in crop plants. (2014, background): “To meet the food demands of billions of people, it is critical to improve crop productivity through efficient breeding (27, 108, 133).”
Improving crop productivity and resource use efficiency to ensure food security and environmental quality in China. (2012, background): “New crop varieties will need to be more efficient in their use of reduced levels of nutrients (Godfray et al., 2010; Tester and Langridge, 2010).”
PSII Fluorescence Techniques for Measurement of Drought and High Temperature Stress Signal in Crop Plants: Protocols and Applications (2013, background): “This accomplishment will be particularly challenging in the face of global environmental change (Tester and Langridge 2010).”
Soil and Crop Management Strategies to Ensure Higher Crop Productivity within Sustainable Environments (2019, background): “Modern agricultural technologies have made it possible for farmers to utilize ample land, modern machinery, and improved inputs to bring under cultivation even bigger farms, thus further increases in productivity can be realized through better varieties, efficient water utilization, and the investme”
ROS-mediated abiotic stress-induced programmed cell death in plants (2015, background): “These findings suggest that maintenance of ionic homeostasis and proper Na+/K+ ratios could be used to manipulate salt stress tolerance in crops (Huh et al., 2002; Teakle and Tyerman, 2010).”
Advances in plant disease and pest management (2010, background): “Today such diversity can be identified, accessed and introduced into breeding programmes more quickly using either conventional hybridization or GM approaches (Tester & Langridge 2010).”
Opportunities and challenges of speed breeding: A review (2021, background): “Notable breeding goals in crop cultivar development programmes include higher yield potential and nutritional quality, and enhanced tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses (Breseghello & Coelho, 2013; Tester & Langridge, 2010).”