Natural genetic variation for improving crop quality

The narrow genetic basis of many crops combined with restrictions on the commercial use of genetically modified plants, has led to a surge of interest in exploring natural biodiversity as a source of novel alleles to improve the productivity, adaptation, quality and nutritional value of crops. Genet...

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Published inCurrent opinion in plant biology Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 196 - 202
Main Authors Fernie, Alisdair R, Tadmor, Yaakov, Zamir, Dani
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2006
Subjects
Biodiversity
Breeding - methods
crop quality
crops
Crops, Agricultural - chemistry
Crops, Agricultural - genetics
Crops, Agricultural - physiology
exotic introgression breeding
genetic improvement
genetic variation
Genetic Variation - physiology
introgression
literature reviews
plant breeding
plant physiology
Solanum lycopersicum var. lycopersicum
tomatoes
wild relatives
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Summary:The narrow genetic basis of many crops combined with restrictions on the commercial use of genetically modified plants, has led to a surge of interest in exploring natural biodiversity as a source of novel alleles to improve the productivity, adaptation, quality and nutritional value of crops. Genetic methodologies have been applied to natural variation to improve quality aspects that are associated with the chemical composition of agricultural products. A future challenge in this emerging field is to integrate metabolic, phenotypic and genomic databases to allow a wider view of the plant metabolome and the application of this knowledge within genomics-assisted breeding.
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ISSN:1369-5266
1879-0356
DOI:10.1016/j.pbi.2006.01.010