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Research Project: Improvement of Barley and Oat for Enhanced Productivity, Quality, and Stress Resistance

Location: Small Grains and Potato Germplasm Research

Title: Editorial: Genetic approaches for crop yield enhancement

Author
item Gao, Dongying
item GUO-QING, SONG - Michigan State University
item AHMAD, OMAR - University Of Florida

Submitted to: Frontiers in Plant Science
Publication Type: Literature Review
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/16/2023
Publication Date: 3/24/2023
Citation: Gao, D., Guo-Qing, S., Ahmad, O. 2023. Editorial: Genetic approaches for crop yield enhancement. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14:1176522. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1176522.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1176522

Interpretive Summary: The Green Revolution of 1960s significantly increased crop yield and the world’s food supply. Since then, it has been becoming extremely difficult to steeply increase yield for many major crops. Despite its importance, yield improvement is very challenging as it is heavily affected by plant genotypes and numerous environmental factors. We have proposed a research topic, “Genetic Approaches for Crop Yield Enhancement”, in the scientific journal Frontiers in Plant Science, for collecting the related manuscripts and highlighting the emerging approaches for enhancing crop yield. Four original articles were submitted and published in this section which provide new insights into the genetic and genomic basis of yield and other important traits in different crops. This editorial briefly summarizes the results and significance of four publications and provides some helpful information about the background and the recent advancement in the area of crop yield improvement.

Technical Abstract: Yield is one of the most important traits for all plant breeding programs. However, yield improvement is very difficult as it is controlled by multiple genes or quantitative trait loci (QTL) and heavily affected by numerous environmental elements. The considerable growth of world population requires more crop production to meet the global food security. We proposed a research topic, “Genetic Approaches for Crop Yield Enhancement,” in the scientific journal Frontiers in Plant Science, to collect new studies on yield improvement. Four original articles were submitted and published in this section that provided some new insights into the genetic and genomic basis of yield and other traits in both annual and perennial crops. In this editorial, we briefly introduce the aims and background of our research topic and summarize the findings and significance of the four contributing articles.