Breeding More Crops in Less Time: A Perspective on Speed Breeding.

Breeding crops in a conventional way demands considerable time, space, inputs for selection, and the subsequent crossing of desirable plants. The duration of the seed-to-seed cycle is one of the crucial bottlenecks in the progress of plant research and breeding. In this context, speed breeding (SB), relying mainly on photoperiod extension, temperature control, and early seed harvest, has the potential to accelerate the rate of plant improvement.

A QTL on the Ca7 chromosome of chickpea affects resistance to the root-lesion nematode .

Unlabelled: The root-lesion nematode Sher & Allen, 1953 is a damaging parasite of many crop plants, including the grain legume chickpea ( L.). Within cultivated chickpea, there are no known sources of strong resistance to , but some cultivars have partial resistance.

Fast-forward breeding for a food-secure world.

Crop production systems need to expand their outputs sustainably to feed a burgeoning human population. Advances in genome sequencing technologies combined with efficient trait mapping procedures accelerate the availability of beneficial alleles for breeding and research. Enhanced interoperability between different omics and phenotyping platforms, leveraged by evolving machine learning tools, will help provide mechanistic explanations for complex plant traits.

Expression Patterns of Key Hormones Related to Pea ( L.) Embryo Physiological Maturity Shift in Response to Accelerated Growth Conditions.

Protocols have been proposed for rapid generation turnover of temperate legumes under conditions optimized for day-length, temperature, and light spectra. These conditions act to compress time to flowering and seed development across genotypes. In pea, we have previously demonstrated that embryos do not efficiently germinate without exogenous hormones until physiological maturity is reached at 18 days after pollination (DAP).

Comparative Reaction of to and .

and are two of the most important pathogens of many cruciferous crops. The reaction of 30 genotypes of (false flax) was determined against both pathogens. genotypes were inoculated at seedling and adult stages with two pathotypes of , highly virulent MBRS-1 and less virulent WW-1.

Discrimination of boron tolerance in L. genotypes using a rapid, high-throughput hydroponic screen and precociously germinated seed grown under far-red enriched light.

Background: Boron (B) tolerance has been identified as a key target for field pea improvement. Screening for B tolerance in the field is problematic due to variability in space and time, and robust B molecular markers are currently unavailable in field pea. There has been recent progress in developing protocols that can accelerate the life cycle of plants to enable rapid generation turnover in single seed descent breeding programs.

Camalexin Production in Camelina sativa is Independent of Cotyledon Resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz. has been proposed as a novel source of oilseed resistance to Sclerotinia rot (SR; causal agent Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.