1. Engineering the future cereal crops with big biological data: toward intelligence-driven breeding by design.
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Liu L, Zhan J, and Yan J
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- Big Data, Humans, Genetic Engineering, Plant Breeding methods, Crops, Agricultural genetics, Crops, Agricultural growth & development, Edible Grain genetics, Edible Grain growth & development
- Abstract
How to feed 10 billion human populations is one of the challenges that need to be addressed in the following decades, especially under an unpredicted climate change. Crop breeding, initiating from the phenotype-based selection by local farmers and developing into current biotechnology-based breeding, has played a critical role in securing the global food supply. However, regarding the changing environment and ever-increasing human population, can we breed outstanding crop varieties fast enough to achieve high productivity, good quality, and widespread adaptability? This review outlines the recent achievements in understanding cereal crop breeding, including the current knowledge about crop agronomic traits, newly developed techniques, crop big biological data research, and the possibility of integrating them for intelligence-driven breeding by design, which ushers in a new era of crop breeding practice and shapes the novel architecture of future crops. This review focuses on the major cereal crops, including rice, maize, and wheat, to explain how intelligence-driven breeding by design is becoming a reality., Competing Interests: Conflict of interest The authors declared that they have no conflicts of interest to this work., (Copyright © 2024 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Genetics Society of China. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2024
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