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. 2020 Dec;25(12):1189-1193.
doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.08.011. Epub 2020 Sep 18.

Seeking Crops with Balanced Parts for the Ideal Whole

Ragavendran Abbai  1 , Vikas K Singh  2 , Rod J Snowdon  3 , Arvind Kumar  4 , Thorsten Schnurbusch  5
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Seeking Crops with Balanced Parts for the Ideal Whole

Ragavendran Abbai et al. Trends Plant Sci. 2020 Dec.
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Abstract

Crop domestication and breeding considerably increased productivity over centuries but unconsciously lowered 'selfish plant behavior' or individual plant fitness. Paradoxically, enhancing individual plant fitness is mistakenly equated with crop improvement. Because agriculture relies on community performance, embracing an agroecological genetics and genomics viewpoint might maximize communal yield by matching crop genotypes to target environments.

Keywords: climate change; food nutritional security; ideal plant architecture.

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