Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding
Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) represents one of the fastest-growing sectors of horticulture. Production in controlled environments ranges from highly controlled indoor environments with 100% artificial lighting (vertical farms or plant factories) to high-tech greenhouses with or without s...
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| author | Krishna Bhattarai Andrew B. Ogden Sudeep Pandey Germán V. Sandoya Ainong Shi Amol N. Nankar Murukarthick Jayakodi Heqiang Huo Tao Jiang Pasquale Tripodi Chris Dardick |
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| description | Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) represents one of the fastest-growing sectors of horticulture. Production in controlled environments ranges from highly controlled indoor environments with 100% artificial lighting (vertical farms or plant factories) to high-tech greenhouses with or without supplemental lighting, to simpler greenhouses and high tunnels. Although food production occurs in the soil inside high tunnels, most CEA operations use various hydroponic systems to meet crop irrigation and fertility needs. The expansion of CEA offers promise as a tool for increasing food production in and near urban systems as these systems do not rely on arable agricultural land. In addition, CEA offers resilience to climate instability by growing inside protective structures. Products harvested from CEA systems tend to be of high quality, both internal and external, and are sought after by consumers. Currently, CEA producers rely on cultivars bred for production in open-field agriculture. Because of high energy and other production costs in CEA, only a limited number of food crops have proven themselves to be profitable to produce. One factor contributing to this situation may be a lack of optimized cultivars. Indoor growing operations offer opportunities for breeding cultivars that are ideal for these systems. To facilitate breeding these specialized cultivars, a wide range of tools are available for plant breeders to help speed this process and increase its efficiency. This review aims to cover breeding opportunities and needs for a wide range of horticultural crops either already being produced in CEA systems or with potential for CEA production. It also reviews many of the tools available to breeders including genomics-informed breeding, marker-assisted selection, precision breeding, high-throughput phenotyping, and potential sources of germplasm suitable for CEA breeding. The availability of published genomes and trait-linked molecular markers should enable rapid progress in the breeding of CEA-specific food crops that will help drive the growth of this industry. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9a5c2a38cddd4af9a829ee3e257bca9d2025-01-27T06:41:06ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2025-01-011510.3389/fpls.2024.15246011524601Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breedingKrishna Bhattarai0Andrew B. Ogden1Sudeep Pandey2Germán V. Sandoya3Ainong Shi4Amol N. Nankar5Murukarthick Jayakodi6Heqiang Huo7Tao Jiang8Pasquale Tripodi9Chris Dardick10Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Dallas, TX, United StatesDepartment of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, United StatesDepartment of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, United StatesHorticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Everglades Research and Education Center, University of Florida – Institute for Food and Agriculture Sciences, Belle Glade, FL, United StatesDepartment of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United StatesDepartment of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, United StatesDepartment of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Dallas, TX, United StatesDepartment of Environmental Horticulture, Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, IFAS, Apopka, FL, United StatesDepartment of Environmental Horticulture, Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, IFAS, Apopka, FL, United StatesCouncil for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Pontecagnano-Faiano, SA, ItalyUnited States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysville, WV, United StatesControlled environment agriculture (CEA) represents one of the fastest-growing sectors of horticulture. Production in controlled environments ranges from highly controlled indoor environments with 100% artificial lighting (vertical farms or plant factories) to high-tech greenhouses with or without supplemental lighting, to simpler greenhouses and high tunnels. Although food production occurs in the soil inside high tunnels, most CEA operations use various hydroponic systems to meet crop irrigation and fertility needs. The expansion of CEA offers promise as a tool for increasing food production in and near urban systems as these systems do not rely on arable agricultural land. In addition, CEA offers resilience to climate instability by growing inside protective structures. Products harvested from CEA systems tend to be of high quality, both internal and external, and are sought after by consumers. Currently, CEA producers rely on cultivars bred for production in open-field agriculture. Because of high energy and other production costs in CEA, only a limited number of food crops have proven themselves to be profitable to produce. One factor contributing to this situation may be a lack of optimized cultivars. Indoor growing operations offer opportunities for breeding cultivars that are ideal for these systems. To facilitate breeding these specialized cultivars, a wide range of tools are available for plant breeders to help speed this process and increase its efficiency. This review aims to cover breeding opportunities and needs for a wide range of horticultural crops either already being produced in CEA systems or with potential for CEA production. It also reviews many of the tools available to breeders including genomics-informed breeding, marker-assisted selection, precision breeding, high-throughput phenotyping, and potential sources of germplasm suitable for CEA breeding. The availability of published genomes and trait-linked molecular markers should enable rapid progress in the breeding of CEA-specific food crops that will help drive the growth of this industry.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1524601/fullcontrolled environmentsgeneticsgermplasmgenomicshigh-throughput phenotypingfruits and vegetables |
| spellingShingle | Krishna Bhattarai Andrew B. Ogden Sudeep Pandey Germán V. Sandoya Ainong Shi Amol N. Nankar Murukarthick Jayakodi Heqiang Huo Tao Jiang Pasquale Tripodi Chris Dardick Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding Frontiers in Plant Science controlled environments genetics germplasm genomics high-throughput phenotyping fruits and vegetables |
| title | Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding |
| title_full | Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding |
| title_fullStr | Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding |
| title_short | Improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding |
| title_sort | improvement of crop production in controlled environment agriculture through breeding |
| topic | controlled environments genetics germplasm genomics high-throughput phenotyping fruits and vegetables |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1524601/full |
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