TY - JOUR
T1 - Natural genetic variation for improving crop quality
AU - Fernie, Alisdair R.
AU - Tadmor, Yaakov
AU - Zamir, Dani
PY - 2006/4
Y1 - 2006/4
N2 - The narrow genetic basis of many crops combined with restrictions on the commercial use of genetically modified plants, has led to a surge of interest in exploring natural biodiversity as a source of novel alleles to improve the productivity, adaptation, quality and nutritional value of crops. Genetic methodologies have been applied to natural variation to improve quality aspects that are associated with the chemical composition of agricultural products. A future challenge in this emerging field is to integrate metabolic, phenotypic and genomic databases to allow a wider view of the plant metabolome and the application of this knowledge within genomics-assisted breeding.
AB - The narrow genetic basis of many crops combined with restrictions on the commercial use of genetically modified plants, has led to a surge of interest in exploring natural biodiversity as a source of novel alleles to improve the productivity, adaptation, quality and nutritional value of crops. Genetic methodologies have been applied to natural variation to improve quality aspects that are associated with the chemical composition of agricultural products. A future challenge in this emerging field is to integrate metabolic, phenotypic and genomic databases to allow a wider view of the plant metabolome and the application of this knowledge within genomics-assisted breeding.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33344455283&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pbi.2006.01.010
DO - 10.1016/j.pbi.2006.01.010
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C2 - 16480915
AN - SCOPUS:33344455283
SN - 1369-5266
VL - 9
SP - 196
EP - 202
JO - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
JF - Current Opinion in Plant Biology
IS - 2
ER -
