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Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

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  • Julia Bailey-Serres

    (University of California Riverside
    Utrecht University)

  • Jane E. Parker

    (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS))

  • Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

    (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

  • Giles E. D. Oldroyd

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Julian I. Schroeder

    (University of California San Diego
    University of California San Diego)

Abstract

The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world’s population by 20501. Greater and more consistent crop production must be achieved against a backdrop of climatic stress that limits yields, owing to shifts in pests and pathogens, precipitation, heat-waves and other weather extremes. Here we consider the potential of plant sciences to address post-Green Revolution challenges in agriculture and explore emerging strategies for enhancing sustainable crop production and resilience in a changing climate. Accelerated crop improvement must leverage naturally evolved traits and transformative engineering driven by mechanistic understanding, to yield the resilient production systems that are needed to ensure future harvests.

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  • Julia Bailey-Serres & Jane E. Parker & Elizabeth A. Ainsworth & Giles E. D. Oldroyd & Julian I. Schroeder, 2019. "Genetic strategies for improving crop yields," Nature, Nature, vol. 575(7781), pages 109-118, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:575:y:2019:i:7781:d:10.1038_s41586-019-1679-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1679-0
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