Application of genomics-assisted breeding for generation of climate resilient crops: Progress and prospects

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue AUG, 2015, Pages

  Kole, Chittaranjan ^a,ae   Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan ^b   Henry, Robert ^c   Edwards, David ^c   Sharma, Rishu ^a   Abberton, Michael ^d   Batley, Jacqueline ^c   Bentley, Alison ^e   Blakeney, Michael ^f   Bryant, John ^g   Cai, Hongwei ^h,i   Cakir, Mehmet ^j   Cseke, Leland J ^k   Cockram, James ^e   de Oliveira, Antonio Costa ^l   De Pace, Ciro ^m   Dempewolf, Hannes ⁿ   Ellison, Shelby ^o   Gepts, Paul ^p   Greenland, Andy ^e   Hall, Anthony ^q   Hori, Kiyosumi ^r   Hughes, Stephen ^g   Humphreys, Mike W ^s   Iorizzo, Massimo ^o   Ismail, Abdelbagi M ^t   Marshall, Athole ^s   Mayes, Sean ^u   Nguyen, Henry T ^v   Ogbonnaya, Francis C ^w   Ortiz, Rodomiro ^x   Paterson, Andrew H ^y   Simon, Philipp W ^o   Tohme, Joe ^z   Tuberosa, Roberto ^aa   Valliyodan, Babu ^v   Varshney, Rajeev K ^ab   Wullschleger, Stan D ^ac   Yano, Masahiro ^ad   Prasad, Manoj ^b   more..

^a BIDHAN CHANDRA KRISHI VISWAVIDYALAYA   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENOME RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^h Japan Grassland Agriculture and Forage Seed Association   (Japan)

ⁱ CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k University of Alabama in Huntsville   (United States)

^l FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

ⁿ GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^s ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^t INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^u CROPS FOR THE FUTURE   (Malaysia)

^v UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^w Australian Government Grains Research and Development Corporation   (Australia)

^x SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^y UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^z Centro Intl de Agricultura Tropical   (Colombia)

^aa University of Georgia ^*  (Italy)

^ab INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

^ac OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^ad NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CROP SCIENCE   (Japan)

^ae SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (India)

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Author keywords

Breeding; Climate change; Crop improvement; Genomics; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940185077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00563     Document Type: Review

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