Feuillet, C. and Langridge, P. and Waugh, R. (2007) Cereal breeding takes a walk on the wild side. Trends in Genetics, 24 (1). pp. 24-32.
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Abstract
Elite cultivated crop gene pools of the Triticeae tribe (wheat, barley and rye) exhibit limited genetic diversity, raising concerns about our ability to increase or simply sustain crop yield and quality in the face of dynamic environmental and biotic threats. Although exploiting their wild relatives as a source of novel alleles is challenging, it has provided notable successes in cereal improvement for >100 years. Increasingly facile gene discovery, improved enabling technologies for genetics and breeding and a better understanding of the factors limiting practical exploitation of exotic germplasm promise to transform existing, and accelerate the development of new, strategies for efficient and directed germplasm utilization.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Dynamic environmental, Biotic threats, Cereal improvement, Gene discovery |
| Author Affiliation: | UMR INRA-UBP 1095, Amelioration et Sante des Plantes, Domaine de Crouelle, 63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| Subjects: | Agricultural Engineering |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr B Krishnamurthy |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2016 10:51 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2016 10:51 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2007.11.001 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/14525 |
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