The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs
The challenges faced by today’s agronomists, plant breeders, and their managers encompass adapting sustainably to climate variability while working with limited budgets. Besides, managers are dealing with a multitude of issues with different organizations working on similar initiatives and projects,...
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| author | Ana Luísa Garcia-Oliveira Rodomiro Ortiz Fatma Sarsu Søren K. Rasmussen Paterne Agre Asrat Asfaw Moctar Kante Subhash Chander |
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| description | The challenges faced by today’s agronomists, plant breeders, and their managers encompass adapting sustainably to climate variability while working with limited budgets. Besides, managers are dealing with a multitude of issues with different organizations working on similar initiatives and projects, leading to a lack of a sustainable impact on smallholder farmers. To transform the current food systems as a more sustainable and resilient model efficient solutions are needed to deliver and convey results. Challenges such as logistics, labour, infrastructure, and equity, must be addressed alongside adapting to increasingly unstable climate conditions which affect the life cycle of transboundary pathogens and pests. In this context, transforming food systems go far beyond just farmers and plant breeders and it requires substantial contributions from industry, global finances, transportation, energy, education, and country developmental sectors including legislators. As a result, a holistic approach is essential for achieving sustainable and resilient food systems to sustain a global population anticipated to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100. As of 2021, nearly 193 million individuals were affected by food insecurity, 40 million more than in 2020. Meanwhile, the digital world is rapidly advancing with the digital economy estimated at about 20% of the global gross domestic product, suggesting that digital technologies are increasingly accessible even in areas affected by food insecurity. Leveraging these technologies can facilitate the development of climate-smart cultivars that adapt effectively to climate variation, meet consumer preferences, and address human and livestock nutritional needs. Most economically important traits in crops are controlled by multiple loci often with recessive alleles. Considering particularly Africa, this continent has several agro-climatic zones, hence crops need to be adapted to these. Therefore, targeting specific loci using modern tools offers a precise and efficient approach. This review article aims to address how these new technologies can provide a better support to smallholder farmers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6597ff7fcd4e4b71822f54cb32724ecb2025-02-06T04:11:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2025-02-011510.3389/fpls.2024.15181231518123The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programsAna Luísa Garcia-Oliveira0Rodomiro Ortiz1Fatma Sarsu2Søren K. Rasmussen3Paterne Agre4Asrat Asfaw5Moctar Kante6Subhash Chander7Genetic Resources Program, Alliance Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, ColombiaDepartment of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, SwedenPlant Breeding and Genetics Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Center, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, AustriaIndependent Researcher, Roskilde, DenmarkYam Breeding Unit, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, NigeriaYam Breeding Unit, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, NigeriaGenetics, Genomics, and Crop Improvement Division, International Potato Center, Lima, PeruOilseeds Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, IndiaThe challenges faced by today’s agronomists, plant breeders, and their managers encompass adapting sustainably to climate variability while working with limited budgets. Besides, managers are dealing with a multitude of issues with different organizations working on similar initiatives and projects, leading to a lack of a sustainable impact on smallholder farmers. To transform the current food systems as a more sustainable and resilient model efficient solutions are needed to deliver and convey results. Challenges such as logistics, labour, infrastructure, and equity, must be addressed alongside adapting to increasingly unstable climate conditions which affect the life cycle of transboundary pathogens and pests. In this context, transforming food systems go far beyond just farmers and plant breeders and it requires substantial contributions from industry, global finances, transportation, energy, education, and country developmental sectors including legislators. As a result, a holistic approach is essential for achieving sustainable and resilient food systems to sustain a global population anticipated to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100. As of 2021, nearly 193 million individuals were affected by food insecurity, 40 million more than in 2020. Meanwhile, the digital world is rapidly advancing with the digital economy estimated at about 20% of the global gross domestic product, suggesting that digital technologies are increasingly accessible even in areas affected by food insecurity. Leveraging these technologies can facilitate the development of climate-smart cultivars that adapt effectively to climate variation, meet consumer preferences, and address human and livestock nutritional needs. Most economically important traits in crops are controlled by multiple loci often with recessive alleles. Considering particularly Africa, this continent has several agro-climatic zones, hence crops need to be adapted to these. Therefore, targeting specific loci using modern tools offers a precise and efficient approach. This review article aims to address how these new technologies can provide a better support to smallholder farmers.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1518123/fullagriculturemarker genotypingmutation breedingNGTCRISPRlegislation |
| spellingShingle | Ana Luísa Garcia-Oliveira Rodomiro Ortiz Fatma Sarsu Søren K. Rasmussen Paterne Agre Asrat Asfaw Moctar Kante Subhash Chander The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs Frontiers in Plant Science agriculture marker genotyping mutation breeding NGT CRISPR legislation |
| title | The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs |
| title_full | The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs |
| title_fullStr | The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs |
| title_full_unstemmed | The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs |
| title_short | The importance of genotyping within the climate-smart plant breeding value chain – integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs |
| title_sort | importance of genotyping within the climate smart plant breeding value chain integrative tools for genetic enhancement programs |
| topic | agriculture marker genotyping mutation breeding NGT CRISPR legislation |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1518123/full |
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