Genomics-assisted breeding - A revolutionary strategy for crop improvement

doi:10.1016/S2095-3119(17)61813-6

摘要/Abstract

Abstract: Food shortages arise more frequently owing to unpredictable crop yield losses caused by biotic and abiotic stresses. With advances in molecular biology and marker technology, a new era of molecular breeding has emerged that has greatly accelerated the pace of plant breeding. High-throughput genotyping technology and phenotyping platforms have enabled large-scale marker-trait association analysis, such as genome-wide association studies, to precisely dissect the genetic architecture of plant traits. Large-scale mapping of agronomically important quantitative trait loci, gene cloning and characterization, mining of elite alleles/haplotypes, exploitation of natural variations, and genomic selection have paved the way towards genomics-assisted breeding (GAB). With the availability of more and more informative genomic datasets, GAB would become a promising technique to expedite the breeding cycle for crop improvement.

Key words: germplasm , genotyping technology , phenotyping platform , genomics-assisted breeding

. [J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2017, 16(12): 2674-2685.

LENG Peng-fei, Thomas Lübberstedt, XU Ming-liang. Genomics-assisted breeding - A revolutionary strategy for crop improvement[J]. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2017, 16(12): 2674-2685.

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