Abstract:
In modern agriculture, plant breeding is the engine that drives innovation in crops. Improved harvests, disease resistance, plant vigor, drought tolerance–but even in the most accurate and informed breeding programs, it can take many attempts to achieve a desirable trait. Food security cannot be achieved without transformation to advanced breeding platform using advanced omics, data science and Artificial Intelligence. In the last couple of decades, a growing body of modern technologies has been developed and now awaits efficient integration into traditional breeding pipelines. Newly available technologies including genomics, high throughput phenotyping and historical descriptions of environmental relatedness (enviromics) are crucial to improving conventional breeding schemes and increasing genetic gain. This presentation will briefly describe the use of these technologies and their implementation to provide cost-effective and time-saving approaches to plant breeding. It will also give an overview of the interconnections between these techniques. Finally, it will envision the future perspective to implement a more interconnected breeding approach that takes advantage of the so-called modern plant breeding triangle.
Page(s):
10-10
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Abstract Book on International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security, August 27-31, 2023 , Volume: 0, Issue: 0, Year: 2023