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Crop genetics research in Asia: improving food security and nutrition

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-020-03597-x
doi:10.1007/s00122-020-03597-x
 
Title Crop genetics research in Asia: improving food security and nutrition
 
Creator Zhang, Q
Xu, M
Xia, X
Komatsuda, T
Varshney, R K
Shi, K
 
Subject Genetics and Genomics
Food and Nutrition
Food Security
 
Description Breakthroughs in genomics research in recent decades have
fundamentally changed the landscape of crop science at a
number of fronts:
(1) High-quality reference genome sequences have become
available for most of the crops which have provided
the foundation for understanding the genome and for
functional genomic studies.
(2) Large numbers of genes have been identified and functionally
characterized for many important agronomic
traits, which have greatly enhanced the understanding
of the regulatory mechanisms and the underlying biological
processes for the making of the traits.
(3) Large-scale resequencing of the diverse germplasms
and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have
provided assessment about the extent of genome diversity,
the genetic architecture, and association between
the phenotype and DNA sequence polymorphisms in
many crop species.
(4) Systems of breeding technologies based on the advance
in genomic studies, or genomic breeding, have now
been developed including novel goals in response to
the evolving demands of the consumers, upgraded definitions
of traits to be improved, techniques for whole
genome selection, and varietal designs for the implementation.
 
Publisher Springer Verlag
 
Date 2020-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11507/1/s00122-020-03597-x.pdf
Zhang, Q and Xu, M and Xia, X and Komatsuda, T and Varshney, R K and Shi, K (2020) Crop genetics research in Asia: improving food security and nutrition. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (TSI), 133 (5). pp. 1339-1344. ISSN 0040-5752