Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

Julia Bailey-Serres (), Jane E. Parker, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Giles E. D. Oldroyd and Julian I. Schroeder ()
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Julia Bailey-Serres: University of California Riverside
Jane E. Parker: Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS)
Elizabeth A. Ainsworth: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Giles E. D. Oldroyd: University of Cambridge
Julian I. Schroeder: University of California San Diego

Nature, 2019, vol. 575, issue 7781, 109-118

Abstract: Abstract The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world’s population by 20501. Greater and more consistent crop production must be achieved against a backdrop of climatic stress that limits yields, owing to shifts in pests and pathogens, precipitation, heat-waves and other weather extremes. Here we consider the potential of plant sciences to address post-Green Revolution challenges in agriculture and explore emerging strategies for enhancing sustainable crop production and resilience in a changing climate. Accelerated crop improvement must leverage naturally evolved traits and transformative engineering driven by mechanistic understanding, to yield the resilient production systems that are needed to ensure future harvests.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1679-0

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