Molecular Genetics Enhances Plant Breeding

Andrés J Cortés; Hai Du

doi:10.3390/ijms24129977

Molecular Genetics Enhances Plant Breeding

Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jun 9;24(12):9977. doi: 10.3390/ijms24129977.

Authors

Andrés J Cortés¹, Hai Du^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria AGROSAVIA, C.I. La Selva, Km 7 vía Rionegro-Las Palmas, Rionegro 054048, Colombia.
² College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Rapeseed, Southwest University, Chongqing 400000, China.
³ Integrative Science Center of Germplasm Creation in Western China (Chongqing) Science City and Southwest University, of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400000, China.
⁴ Engineering Research Center, South Upland Agriculture, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400000, China.

Abstract

Human-driven plant selection, a practice as ancient as agriculture itself, has laid the foundations of plant breeding and contemporary farming [...].

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Agriculture
Humans
Molecular Biology
Plant Breeding*
Plants* / genetics

Grants and funding

A.J.C. received support from Vetenskapsrådet (VR) and Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien (KVA) while conceiving and closing this Special Issue through grants 2016-00418/2022-04411 and BS2017-0036, respectively. A.J.C. also acknowledges Newton Fund’s 527023146 grant, executed during the time this Special Issue was being processed, as well as Fulbright U.S. Specialist Program for supporting synergistic discussion with M.W. Blair on molecular breeding of tropical species in Rionegro (Antioquia, Colombia) during the summer of 2019.