Translational plant biology

作     者：Dabing Zhang 

作者机构：Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental SciencesSJTU-University of Adelaide Joint Centre for Agriculture and Health Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

出 版 物：《Journal of Integrative Plant Biology》 (植物学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第57卷第11期

页      面：874-875页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0828[工学-农业工程] 08[工学] 09[农学] 071007[理学-遗传学] 0901[农学-作物学] 0836[工学-生物工程] 090102[农学-作物遗传育种] 

主　　题：InDel Translational plant biology 

摘      要：The global demand on agricultural products is rapidly expanding because of a growing world population and other factors, such as the increasing consumption of meat and dairy. However, food supply is facing tremendous challenges includ- ing limited arable land, water and fertilizer resources, various biotic and abiotic stresses. To satisfy the demand of food, feed, fiber and other industrial purposes, by 2050 the amount of grain production must be doubled. Due to the limitation of traditional approaches in addressing the global challenge of food security, new tools are required to increase the agricultural productiv- ities. With the advance of genomics in model and crop plants, a number of genes/alleles controlling important agronomic traits have been identified and these discoveries offer new oppor- tunities to increase crop yield, quality and production stability using advanced breeding techniques. Furthermore, new technologies including high throughput DNA sequencing, high-density molecular markers, genome editing and compa- rative genomics speed up the identification of genes/alleles with economical importance. Additionally, the efficient trans- formation methods enable the characterization of predicted orthologs in crop species and translating the fundamental plant research to crops for agricultural improvement.