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Legume Breeding for the Agroecological Transition of Global Agri-Food Systems: A European Perspective

Wider and more profitable legume crop cultivation is an indispensable step for the agroecological transition of global agri-food systems but represents a challenge especially in Europe. Plant breeding is pivotal in this context. Research areas of key interest are represented by innovative phenotypic...

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Autores principales: Rubiales, Diego, Annicchiarico, Paolo, Vaz Patto, Maria Carlota, Julier, Bernadette
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8637196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34868184
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.782574
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author Rubiales, Diego
Annicchiarico, Paolo
Vaz Patto, Maria Carlota
Julier, Bernadette
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description Wider and more profitable legume crop cultivation is an indispensable step for the agroecological transition of global agri-food systems but represents a challenge especially in Europe. Plant breeding is pivotal in this context. Research areas of key interest are represented by innovative phenotypic and genome-based selection procedures for crop yield, tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses enhanced by the changing climate, intercropping, and emerging crop quality traits. We see outmost priority in the exploration of genomic selection (GS) opportunities and limitations, to ease genetic gains and to limit the costs of multi-trait selection. Reducing the profitability gap of legumes relative to major cereals will not be possible in Europe without public funding devoted to crop improvement research, pre-breeding, and, in various circumstances, public breeding. While most of these activities may profit of significant public-private partnerships, all of them can provide substantial benefits to seed companies. A favorable institutional context may comprise some changes to variety registration tests and procedures.
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spelling pubmed-86371962021-12-03 Legume Breeding for the Agroecological Transition of Global Agri-Food Systems: A European Perspective Rubiales, Diego Annicchiarico, Paolo Vaz Patto, Maria Carlota Julier, Bernadette Front Plant Sci Plant Science Wider and more profitable legume crop cultivation is an indispensable step for the agroecological transition of global agri-food systems but represents a challenge especially in Europe. Plant breeding is pivotal in this context. Research areas of key interest are represented by innovative phenotypic and genome-based selection procedures for crop yield, tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses enhanced by the changing climate, intercropping, and emerging crop quality traits. We see outmost priority in the exploration of genomic selection (GS) opportunities and limitations, to ease genetic gains and to limit the costs of multi-trait selection. Reducing the profitability gap of legumes relative to major cereals will not be possible in Europe without public funding devoted to crop improvement research, pre-breeding, and, in various circumstances, public breeding. While most of these activities may profit of significant public-private partnerships, all of them can provide substantial benefits to seed companies. A favorable institutional context may comprise some changes to variety registration tests and procedures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8637196/ /pubmed/34868184 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.782574 Text en Copyright © 2021 Rubiales, Annicchiarico, Vaz Patto and Julier. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Legume Breeding for the Agroecological Transition of Global Agri-Food Systems: A European Perspective
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title_short Legume Breeding for the Agroecological Transition of Global Agri-Food Systems: A European Perspective
title_sort legume breeding for the agroecological transition of global agri-food systems: a european perspective
topic Plant Science
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8637196/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.782574
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