Speed breeding: a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding

Pages: 161182
Published: Jul 9, 2017
Abstract
The growing human population and a changing environment have raised significant concern for global food security, with the current improvement rate of several important crops inadequate to meet future demand [1]. This slow improvement rate is attributed partly to the long generation times of crop plants. Here we present a method called 9speed breeding9, which greatly shortens generation time and accelerates breeding and research programs. Speed...
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Title
Speed breeding: a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding
Published Date
Jul 9, 2017
Journal
Pages
161182
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