Ortiz Rios, Rodomiro Octavio
- Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Climate change affects agricultural productivity worldwide. Increased prices of food commodities are the initial indication of drastic edible yield loss, which is expected to increase further due to global warming. This situation has compelled plant scientists to develop climate change-resilient crops,which can withstand broad-spectrums tresses such as drought, heat, cold, salinity, flood, submergence and pests, thus helping to deliver increased productivity. Genomics appears to be a promising tool for deciphering the stress responsiveness of crop species with adaptation traits or in wild relatives toward identifying underlying genes, alleles or quantitative trait loci. Molecular breeding approaches have proven helpful in enhancing the stress adaptation of crop plants, and recent advances in high-throughput sequencing and phenotyping platforms have transformed molecula rbreeding to genomics-assisted breeding (GAB). In view of this, the present review elaborates the progress and prospects of GAB for improving climate change resilience in crops, which is likely to play an ever increasing role in the effort to ensure global food security.
Keywords
climate change; crop improvement; stress tolerance; breeding; genomics
Published in
Frontiers in Plant Science
2015, volume: 6, article number: 563
SLU Authors
Associated SLU-program
SLU Plant Protection Network
Global goals (SDG)
SDG2 Zero hunger
SDG13 Climate action
UKÄ Subject classification
Agricultural Science
Plant Biotechnology
Genetics and Breeding in Agricultural Sciences
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00563
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/68080