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

• Main Authors: Watson, Amy, Ghosh, Sreya, Williams, Matthew J., Cuddy, William S., Simmonds, James, Rey, María Dolores, Md Hatta, Muhammad Asyraf, Hinchliffe, Alison, Steed, Andrew, Reynolds, Daniel, Adamski, Nikolai M., Breakspear, Andy, Korolev, Andrey, Rayner, Tracey, Dixon, Laura E., Riaz, Adnan, Martin, William, Ryan, Merrill, Edwards, David, Batley, Jacqueline, Raman, Harsh, Carter, Jeremy, Rogers, Christian, Domoney, Claire, Moore, Graham, Harwood, Wendy, Nicholson, Paul, Dieters, Mark J., DeLacy, Ian H., Ji, Zhou, Uauy, Cristobal, Boden, Scott A., Park, Robert F., Wulff, Brande B. H., Hickey, Lee T.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2018
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73948/1/Speed%20breeding%20is%20a%20powerful%20tool%20to%20accelerate%20crop%20research%20and%20breeding.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/73948/; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29292376

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 pla...