Glenn, K.C. and Bell, E. and Goley, M. and Jenkinson, J. and etl, . (2017) Bringing new plant varieties to market: Plant breeding and selection practices advance beneficial characteristics while minimizing unintended Changes. Crop Science, 57 (6). pp. 2906-2921.
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Abstract
Commercial-scale plant breeding is a complex process in which new crop varieties are continuously being developed to improve yield and agronomic performance over current varieties. A wide array of naturally occurring genetic changes are sources of new characteristics available to plant breeders. During conventional plant breeding, genetic material is exchanged that has the potential to beneficially or adversely affect plant characteristics. For this reason, commercial-scale breeders have implemented extensive plant selection practices to identify the top-performing candidates with the desired characteristics while minimizing the advancement of unintended changes. Selection practices in maize (Zea mays L.) breeding involve phenotypic assessments of thousands of candidate lines throughout hundreds of different environmental conditions over many years. Desirable characteristics can also be introduced through genetic modification. For genetically modified (GM) crops, molecular analysis is used to select transformed plants with a single copy of an intact DNA insert and without disruption of endogenous genes. All the while, GM crops go through the same extensive phenotypic characterization as conventionally bred crops. Data from both conventional and GM maize breeding programs are presented to show the similarities between these two processes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Plant breeding, yield, agronomic, genetic, characteristics, genetically modified |
| Author Affiliation: | Monsanto Company, 800 North Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63167; B. Alsop, Benson Hill Biosystems, 1100 |
| Subjects: | Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr T L Gautham |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2018 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2018 04:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15553 |
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