scholarly journals New Plant Breeding Techniques Under Food Security Pressure and Lobbying

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianqian Shao ◽  
Maarten Punt ◽  
Justus Wesseler
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 5585
Author(s):  
Sajid Fiaz ◽  
Sunny Ahmar ◽  
Sajjad Saeed ◽  
Aamir Riaz ◽  
Freddy Mora-Poblete ◽  
...  

A world with zero hunger is possible only through a sustainable increase in food production and distribution and the elimination of poverty. Scientific, logistical, and humanitarian approaches must be employed simultaneously to ensure food security, starting with farmers and breeders and extending to policy makers and governments. The current agricultural production system is facing the challenge of sustainably increasing grain quality and yield and enhancing resistance to biotic and abiotic stress under the intensifying pressure of climate change. Under present circumstances, conventional breeding techniques are not sufficient. Innovation in plant breeding is critical in managing agricultural challenges and achieving sustainable crop production. Novel plant breeding techniques, involving a series of developments from genome editing techniques to speed breeding and the integration of omics technology, offer relevant, versatile, cost-effective, and less time-consuming ways of achieving precision in plant breeding. Opportunities to edit agriculturally significant genes now exist as a result of new genome editing techniques. These range from random (physical and chemical mutagens) to non-random meganucleases (MegaN), zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/associated protein system 9 (CRISPR/Cas9), the CRISPR system from Prevotella and Francisella1 (Cpf1), base editing (BE), and prime editing (PE). Genome editing techniques that promote crop improvement through hybrid seed production, induced apomixis, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stress are prioritized when selecting for genetic gain in a restricted timeframe. The novel CRISPR-associated protein system 9 variants, namely BE and PE, can generate transgene-free plants with more frequency and are therefore being used for knocking out of genes of interest. We provide a comprehensive review of the evolution of genome editing technologies, especially the application of the third-generation genome editing technologies to achieve various plant breeding objectives within the regulatory regimes adopted by various countries. Future development and the optimization of forward and reverse genetics to achieve food security are evaluated.


2021 ◽  
Vol 258-259 ◽  
pp. 153378
Author(s):  
Eugenia M.A. Enfissi ◽  
Margit Drapal ◽  
Laura Perez-Fons ◽  
Marilise Nogueira ◽  
Harriet M. Berry ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Salonia ◽  
Angelo Ciacciulli ◽  
Lara Poles ◽  
Helena Domenica Pappalardo ◽  
Stefano La Malfa ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 438-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan G. Schaart ◽  
Clemens C.M. van de Wiel ◽  
Lambertus A.P. Lotz ◽  
Marinus J.M. Smulders

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Parisi ◽  
Emilio Rodríguez-Cerezo ◽  
Harry Thangaraj

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 573-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai P Purnhagen ◽  
Esther Kok ◽  
Gijs Kleter ◽  
Hanna Schebesta ◽  
Richard G F Visser ◽  
...  

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