Breeding crops to feed 10 billion.
Lee T HickeyAmber N HafeezHannah RobinsonScott A JacksonSoraya C M Leal-BertioliMark A TesterCaixia GaoIan D GodwinBen John HayesBrande B H WulffPublished in: Nature biotechnology (2019)
Crop improvements can help us to meet the challenge of feeding a population of 10 billion, but can we breed better varieties fast enough? Technologies such as genotyping, marker-assisted selection, high-throughput phenotyping, genome editing, genomic selection and de novo domestication could be galvanized by using speed breeding to enable plant breeders to keep pace with a changing environment and ever-increasing human population.