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Review
. 2019 Jul;37(7):744-754.
doi: 10.1038/s41587-019-0152-9. Epub 2019 Jun 17.

Breeding crops to feed 10 billion

Lee T Hickey  1 , Amber N Hafeez  2 , Hannah Robinson  3 , Scott A Jackson  4 , Soraya C M Leal-Bertioli  5 , Mark Tester  6 , Caixia Gao  7 , Ian D Godwin  8 , Ben J Hayes  9 , Brande B H Wulff  10
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Review

Breeding crops to feed 10 billion

Lee T Hickey et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Jul.

Abstract

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.

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