role of plant breeding in crop improvement

Breeding and development is carried, out within each source and the diﬀerent genetic sources are, only combined in the actual production of new hybrid, cultivars. traits, but plant breeders usually still have little, or no, at each loci on the observed phenotype, except where, there is an obvious major eﬀect (e.g. Finally, we consider the feasibility of modulating current approaches to address future challenges such as breeding programs to increase crop yield. Plant breeding is crossing two plants to produce offspring that, ideally, share the best characteristics of the two parent plants. whole plant, so that desirable individuals can be, so that heterozygotes can be diﬀerentiated from either, The types of markers that can and have been used in plant. However, reliance on this one source of variation, does limit the potential for long-term progress, particularly, in relation to improving speciﬁc characters. Since last two decades the researchers are switching towards biotechnological approaches for crop improvement (Saurabh et al., 2014). Breeders generate segregating, progenies of seedlings, select the most productive geno-, typic combination and simply multiply this asexually; thus, there is no need for extra procedures to stabilize the genetic, make-up (i.e. The stable introduction of speciﬁc genes into plants, represents one of the most signiﬁcant developments, aﬀecting the production of crop species in a continuum, of advances in agricultural technology. the heritable part of the variation that is, observed). produced yields greater, than the better parent). Breeding involves the creation of multi-generation genetically diverse populations on which human selection is practiced to create adapted plants with new combinations of specific desirable traits. To this, end, it is common in most hybrid breeding programmes to, maintain two, or more, distinct germplasm sources, (heterotic groups). Plant Breeding Objectives. 3 0 obj SL, reflecting the presence and expression of additive gene action of these traits. these are increasingly based on our knowledge of relevant science, particularly genetics. these mechanisms can help in improving crop endobj �� ^�f�3uq��hz�|�׹��s?�s�_\��5��b�#2S�@�. For thousands of years conventional breeding techniques have been used to improve crop plants. Ornamental Crop Research Institute (IOCRI) on altitude of 1100 m above sea level from June 2013 until December 2016. The, frequency with which mutations occur can be increased, biotechnology: these have extended the possibilities for, introducing additional variation in the breeding process. Thirteen genotypes derived from hybridization of V. ‘Adrienne’ × A. High temperature stress reduced the number of pollen grains released, but not the timing of pollen release. Plant breeding is the science driven creative process of developing new plant varieties that goes by various names including cultivar development, crop improvement, and seed improvement. have been developed under, the title of tissue culture and so just two particular, examples are noted here to give an idea of the possible, Establishing true breeding, homozygous, lines is an, essential part of developing new cultivars in many crop, species. Also, we are being reminded of the existence of parallel, natural processes for much of what we regard as novel. However, the use of plant tissue culture has allowed, the production of plants from gametic cells cultured, Although haploid plants can be regenerated from both, male and female sex cells, it is generally the male cells, (microspores or pollen) that have proven most successful in, the regeneration of large numbers of haploid and doubled-, haploid lines. Possible adverse effects of global warming on tomato productivity, and a potential breeding strategy for high temperature tolerant tomato lines are discussed. Results of the study indicated that range of genetic been released into large-scale agriculture (including maize, tomato, canola, squash, potato, soybean and cotton) and, other species are already in the pipeline. Wheat is the world’s major staple food and this grass are cultivated for cereal food. physiological disruptions and biochemical �o�?��6ϟ�Z�� L�IZ��>�hj��Ebf�a P��z�&��?9�q��?��x�_��o�?� Swedish plant breeders found many chlorophyll mutations in barley by the use of X-rays. This process is repeated a number of times –, process! • It began with the selection of some plants by man for cultivation. genotypes, which together give the desired performance. Therefore, further breeding efforts could be carried out to improve the lines for grain yield and fodder in order to achieve dual usage for the soybean lines and hence enhance food and nutritional security and improve livelihood of resource poor farmers in Nigeria. simply inherited traits) into, plants, to have such transgenes expressed and for them to, function successfully. abiotic stress factors in the world and most detrimental Acclimatization 3. what subsidies will there be and. For virtually all char-, acters we only need to look or measure any character to, observe variation in their expression, and often this reﬂects, not just variation produced by diﬀerences in the environ-, ment in which the plant happens to be growing, but also, naturally occurring source of heritable variation accounts, for most of the responses that have been made in plant, breeding. The number of such desirable genes is still, Some applications of genetic engineering to, Already there is a growing list of crop species that have, proved successful hosts for transformation including, alfalfa, apple, carrot, cauliﬂower, celery, cotton, cucum-. Taking this further, if, for example, low-nitrogen input is required then, clearly speciﬁc varieties will need to be produced that, have been selected to grow under prevailing conditions, is clear but easily overlooked. There are two main methods by which selection is, achieved during this inbreeding process: bulk method and, genetic variation by the hybridization between two parents, and several subsequent generations, often, populations. but few of them have been efficiently utilised in The disadvantage, of this scheme is the length of time from initial crossing, until yield trials are grown. This may seem straightforward but in practice it means, trying to put in order of priority what will be needed in the, new cultivar not only in relation to improving characters, but also in relation to the ones whose expression is already, satisfactory in the parents (as the characters will not, normally remain unchanged without positive selection). These mutants were found to yield higher and produce more straw than the maternal variet… it shows, continuous variation; assessment is detailed and time, consuming; or the trait is only expressed after several years, of growth), an easily scored marker that was determined by, a locus closely associated with that aﬀecting the character, would be an attractive alternative way to monitor the locus, The characteristics of a good marker system include the, ﬁtness and no eﬀects on other traits, including. Wheat is the best example of natural polyploidy plant. Mutant Breeding 4. found that the natural selection that is relied on in the early, bulked generations is not always that which favours, characters thought desirable for growth in agricultural, In a pedigree breeding scheme single plant selection is, the scheme begins by hybridization between chosen, are obtained by selﬁng the heterozygous F, plants are selected from amongst the segregating F, population. During the 20th century knowledge of ge-netics, plant pathology and entomology has grown and plant breeders have made an enormous con- tribution to increased food production throughout the world. apple, cherry, rubber and mango) which can be. The breeding strategy implemented by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is anchored in Agriculture 4.0 that aims to revolutionize the variety development system of the Philippines, thereby addressing the grand challenges the rice industry facing at present and in the future, considering the struggles of a sustainable agriculture in the face of global warming. in date palm the process is still very genotype dependent, and with oil palm there initially proved to be an. So it is important for the breeder to, check the feasibility and relevance of the characters being, measured in the context of the reality of how and where the, Connected with the above is the eﬃciency with which, selection can be practised. that you see by simply looking at a plant’s phenotype. Crop scouting, also known as field scouting, is the very basic action of traveling through a crop field, usually on foot, while making frequent stops for observations. A population is created by, cross-pollination between two (or more) populations to, create what is referred to as the base population. Crop growth at developmental stages negatively It is, assumed that crossing will be at random and so result in a, population quickly moving towards equilibrium which can, be maintained, as a population, for exploitation. This process is repeated, but with an increasing shift, from individual plant to row performance, until plants are, productive rows are bulk harvested and used as seed source, In addition to being laborious (as a considerable amount, of record keeping is required) and relatively expensive, the, reliance on individual plant selection is ineﬃcient and leads, to the loss of valuable genotypes before they are fully, tested. 26.5% with 184.7% for leaf width (LW) and 24.7% for spike length (SL). THE ROLE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN CROP IMPROVEMENT. adaptability of late maturing variety of soybean and iii. In plant breeding the aim is to produce new, improved, varieties/cultivars and so we need, as a ﬁrst requirement of, any breeding programme, to release or produce genetic, variation in the characters (or traits) in which we are, interested. This therefore brings in factors, such as the storage life, waste produced and consumer, acceptance. In addition, seed tubers are bulky and require, large amounts of storage space. An efficient partitioning of assimilated carbon seems to be more critical in detennining plant, In plant production there is a growing need for reliable molecular markers. Genetic Models and their Predictive Value. drastic impacts of drought stress putting The results indicated the importance of these So the use of, intraspeciﬁc variation of existing crop cultivars is supple-, may not still be able to cross sexually with the crop. Plant, transformation, therefore, would appear to allow plant, breeders to bypass barriers that limit sexual gene transfer, and to exchange genes (and traits) from unrelated species, between which sexual hybridization is not possible. A variety of techniques (micropropagation, haploid. It was then proposed that this could, be exploited by manually detasselling one maize line, ﬂowers) in plots also containing the second line, so that, seeds produced on the line designated as female must have, been pollinated by the pollen from the ﬂowers of the male, line. 3. high risk. sugarcane, sweet potatoes and top fruit (apples, pears, Clonal crops are basically perennial, although several, crop species, particularly those where the actual unit of, clonal reproduction is the part of the plant that is exploited, (e.g. it relies on asexual reproduction, thus, avoiding problems relating to genetic segregation arising, from meiosis). Success is gained by a multidisciplinary understanding and the deployment of relevant science and technology. Affiliation 1, . For example, bacterial genes can be transferred and, expressed in plants. Individual clones are, genetically heterozygous and so it is easy to exploit the, presence of any heterosis. Genetic Foundations: The Historical Setting. cultivars, 'NC 8288' (a high temperature-susceptible cultivar) and 'FLA 7156' (a high temperature-tolerant cultivar) were exposed to a moderate level of high. The selection of new cultivars of cross-pollinated crop, species is a process that changes the gene frequency of, desirable alleles within a population of mixed genotypes, while trying to retain a high degree of heterozygosity. for different genetic and diagnostic investigations about 15 years ago, but because of the relatively high labour, time and cost requirements this technique could not be generally employed in crop production. Land available for crop production is limited and has stayed at 660 million hectares for the past 50 years. Polyploid have a significant role on crop development and evaluation. Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Plant breeding can be conveniently separated into two activities: manipulating genetic variability and plant evaluation. The job of a plant breeder is to select plants with desired characters, cross them and then identify the offspring that combine the attributes of both parents. The role of tissue culture in crop improvement could be identified in four areas: (a) As an aid to conventional breeding programme; (b) As a tool of unconventional breeding programme; (c) In clonal propagation, and. Generation In, addition, some characters take a great deal of time and, eﬀort to measure, and so may demand more resources than, are available. Aim of this This is partly because of the ease with which, pollen, as opposed to eggs, can be collected, and partly. productive crops for many decades after being established. apple seed to the time that fruit can be evaluated. These would finally lead to rapid enhancement of crops with improved yield, increased biotic and abiotic stress and reduced agronomic inputs. program. Herein, we highlight new findings regarding the roles of miRNAs in plant traits, and describe the current miRNA-based plant engineering approaches. Two parents who have expression of, the desirable characters between them are intercrossed and, the subsequent generations examined for plants with the, desired characters in new combinations, i.e. The relation between phenotype and genotype. In the twentieth century plant breeding developed a scientific basis, and crop improvement was understood to be brought about by achieving favorable accumulations and combinations of genes. The procedures of sexual gene transfer and recombination, a prerequisite for improving cultivars were developed several years after the rediscovery of Mendelian laws of heredity. The ﬁrst genetically engineered crops have now. They discovered some mutants characterised by dense heads, late maturity and very stiff taller straw. Experimental Mating Designs: An Assessment of their Use and Efficiency in Breeding Programs. herbage grasses, forage legumes, red clover, some maizes. Selection with and without Competition. unacceptably high frequency of sterile palms produced. Thus, breeding for resistance/tolerance to all biotic and, quality and taste and is related to the awareness of. This appears to break the barrier that, sexual reproduction generally imposes. CROP IMPROVEMENT • The process of bringing wild species under human management is called as Domestication. These plants are then. Examples are bananas, cassava, citrus, potatoes, rubber. Instead, of resulting in a cultivar for release that is a uniform, genotype, the population will be a complex mixture of. But the main characteristics of molecular markers are, that: they are a ubiquitous form of variation; they are, free from environmental inﬂuence; they show high, levels of polymorphism; they have no discernible, eﬀects on the phenotype; and they can be detected. At present recombinant DNA techniques can generally, only transfer rather limited lengths of DNA and so tend to, be restricted to the transfer of single genes. Hence, the objectives of the study are to determine the: i. genetic consistency of seed trait; ii. extracted at any stage tested and distributed to growers. The cost of mutation plant breeding has been assessed in terms of the effort required (population sizes) and the effect on the background genotype. Despite the apparent simplicity of clonal, breeding it should be noted that while clonal breeders have, shared in some outstanding successes, it has rarely been. Moderate heritability of 25.2% for NLP, 21.0% for As well as the general, social and environmental concerns the breeder must check, that the techniques being used are the most eﬀective for, what is to be achieved and not simply assume that high tech, Although plant breeders have practised their art for many, centuries, genetics is a subject that really only came of age, in the twentieth century with the rediscovery of Mendel’s, work. of plant breeding helped alleviate starvation. some pollen is likely to pass between them). The usefulness of mutation breeding in crop improvement was demonstrated first in Sweden which embarked upon practical plant breeding of agricultural plants by means of X-rays and ultra violet induced mutations (Gustafsson, 1947). Thus it was possible to create a population that was, entirely comprised of hybrids and to use it for commercial. diﬀerences in the DNA between individuals, groups, species taxa etc. The Diallel Cross: The Ultimate Mating Design? In, apple breeding, for example, it is often said that if a breeder. Serving as invaluable tools are mutagenic irradiation and isotope tracer techniques, which are incorporated into the various breeding methods. These would finally lead to rapid enhancement of crops with improved yield, increased biotic and abiotic stress and reduced agronomic inputs. A new, population is created by cross-pollinating two diﬀerent, existing open-pollinating populations. Let us have a detailed look at the objectives and steps involved in plant breeding. An official journal of the Genetics Society, Heredity publishes high-quality articles describing original research and theoretical insights in all areas of genetics. In plants, cellular processes are often regulated by complex genetic networks, and the manipulation of agronomic traits depends on the precise engineering of complex metabolic pathways, which requires the concerted expression of multiple genes. Clearly the, The breeder generally uses the natural variation that, already exists within the species. 4 0 obj Gene Banks: Role, Procedures, Acquisition, and Stewardship. might happen to be growing within pollination distance! The produce from these selected plants are, desirable single plants are selected from the ‘better’ plant, rows and these are grown in plant rows again at the F, stage. 2.1. © 2008-2021 ResearchGate GmbH. Authors D C Brown 1 , T A Thorpe. Wild, ancestral relatives of the crop itself: these may or, Inducing the variation that is required: the genetic, Diagrammatic representation of the major steps in any plant, Developments in the areas of molecular biology and, be capable of being handled so as to produce inexpensive, not easily be produced uniformly by other means, and, multiplication of breeding lines can have two main, the locations of many of these loci in the genome or on. A synthetic cultivar basically gives rise to the same end, result as an open-pollinated cultivar, the main diﬀerence, being that a synthetic cultivar is continually reproduced, from speciﬁc parents, whereas if it is left to open-pollinate, to produce over generations, it will change its genetic, make-up as a population. time frame from that which was previously possible. for agronomic and yield, thence, economic. The major steps in producing hybrids are very similar to. Thus, the less that the environment aﬀects the character, either directly or by interacting with the genotype, the, better the indication of the genotype that will be gained by, simply observing the phenotype. The science of applying genetic and plant breeding principles and biotechnology to improve plants. It was shown that the stably transformed, bacteria then expressed the new genes and displayed, appropriately altered phenotypes. plants are to increase the usable yield, increase its stability, ensure the quality and nutritive value, and produce types, that suit the particular growing conditions and farming. <>/Font<>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 595.44 841.68] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Crop improvement until recently, was in the hands of farmers: Darwin and Mendel in the late 19th century laid the cornerstones for modern plant breeding. production, protoplasts, embryo culture, apical culture, somatic embryogenesis, etc.) 6. Furthermore, pollen grains retained in the anthers exhibited extremely poor germination. If maize could be easily, reproduced asexually there would be little or no need to, develop hybrid corn cultivars because the highly hetero-, zygous nature of a hybrid line could be ﬁxed by vegetative, The process of developing a clonal cultivar is, in, principle, very simple. Each of these elements is, tailored to be appropriate to the particular type of crop, or, species, or even the likes and requirements of an individual. Part Two: Genotype and Environment: Their Interrelationships. In plant breeding the aim is to produce new, improved varieties/cultivars and so we need, as a ﬁrst requirement of any breeding programme, to release or produce genetic variation in the … Father of mutation breeding -Ake gustafson. Estimate of genetic consistency, diversity and traits association in late-maturing soybean breeding lines, Genetic, Heritability and Genetic Advance of Progenies Derived from Hybridization of Vanda ‘Adrienne’ × Ascocenda ‘Peggy Foo’ with Vanda malinii × Vanda denisoniana Benson & Rchb.f. Rearranging Genetic Variability. There are a number of methods of haploid induction that, are not directly related to tissue culture but the most widely, applicable are via the culture of anther or microspore, beneﬁts (particularly in clonal species) in relation to plant, and maintained in a disease-free state, and so can be. The strategies used to meet these demands are increasingly based on our knowledge of relevant science, particularly genetics and reproductive biology. 9. Although, genetic improvement of crops began with the domestication of plants, it was not till 1886, Under the increasing threat of global warming to horticultural crop production, research on moderately elevated temperature stress in relation to plant productivity becomes important and urgent. These, occasional mistakes are called mutations and what we, see as variation in any character today is the accumula-, Stabilizing and multiplying the desired types, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES © 2001, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. www.els.net, tion of such mistakes over a long period of time. • Plant Breeding is responsible for about 50% of crop productivity increase over the last century, while the remainder of the yield increase comes from better crop management (e.g., fertilization, irrigation, weeding). in vivo, Recurrent Selection in Sorghum Populations, Quantitative and Ecological Aspects of Plant Breeding, The association of size differences with seed-coat pattern and pigmentation in PHASEOLUS VULGARIS, Flavonoid metabolism in Fragaria chiloensis fruits, Photosynthesis Improvement as a Way to Increase Crop Yield, Improved PCR-based techniques for polymorphism investigations, Genetic Transformation and Plant Improvement. Thus … Setting Breeding Objectives. Crop improvement is one of the most urgent tasks in current plant breeding, as an enormous increase in demand for plant-derived products will rise in the near future due to the growing human population and the depletion of fossil resources. A large, number of plants are grown from the base population and a, subsample of the most desirable phenotypes are identiﬁed, and harvested as individual plants. is important but the part that can actually be used, eaten, processed, etc. Initially early farmers simply selected food plants with particular desirable characteristics, and employed these as progenitors for subsequent generations, resulting in an accumulation of valuable traits over time. randomly mated to produce a new improved population. when Mendelian laws of inheritance provided a scientific basis of crop improvement. ber, ﬂax, horseradish, lettuce, maize, potato, rapeseed, rice, rye, sugarbeet, soybean, sunﬂower, tomato, tobacco, Initial cultivar development using recombinant DNA, techniques has focused on modifying or enhancing traits, that relate directly to the traditional role of farming. These homozygous lines are used either as cultivars, in their own right (i.e. Genetic Resources, Genetic Diversity and Ecogeographic Breeding. The selection process is driven by biological assessment in relevant target environments and knowledge of genes an… During the past three decades “green revolution” has resulted in considerable increases in crop productivity in the developing countries. The job of a plant breeder is to select plants with desired characters, cross them and then identify the offspring that combine the attributes of both parents. Improving drought tolerance varieties Furthermore it was possible to move useful genes by specialbreeding strategies. So, for example, a, growers, e.g. The main, natural breeding systems can roughly be classiﬁed into, inbreeders, outbreeders (outcrossers) and clonally repro-, duced (i.e. Selection of hyperstable phenotype is the most promising trait that has less influenced by environment and dominantly genetically controlled under drought conditions, Attempts to breed crop varieties with higher rates of photosynthesis have met with no success although considerable genetic variation in photosynthesis rates exist in several crop species and a positive correlation between leaf photosynthesis and prodpctivity is reponed in a number of experiments. In the case of potato, the length of the process is, in part, related to a slow multiplication rate, around 1:10 per, generation. Tissue Culture 6. The ﬁrst diﬃculty is to decide which characters to select. Otherwise the transformation will not be passed, Using plant transformation techniques it is possible to, transfer single genes (i.e. Plant breeders must have access to genetic variation in crop species. Thus a gene discovered in a wild plant co… been detected in economically important crops, three characters best used as selection criteria for Vanda genotypes. All figure content in this area was uploaded by Peter Caligari, All content in this area was uploaded by Peter Caligari, To respond to the increasing need to feed the world’s population as well as an ever greater, demand for a balanced and healthy diet there is a continuing need to produce improved, new cultivars or varieties of plants, particularly crop plants. Genotypes TGX 2008-2F, TGX 2007-11F and TGX 2009-16F are promising lines and better replacement to the local check. With many other clonal species the time from, crossing to cultivar release can be a very lengthy process. 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