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5Gs for crop genetic improvement.
Current opinion in plant biology - 1 Aug 2020
Varshney Rajeev K, Sinha Pallavi, Singh Vikas K, Kumar Arvind, Zhang Qifa, Bennetzen Jeffrey L
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Here we propose a 5G breeding approach for bringing much-needed disruptive changes to crop improvement. These 5Gs are Genome assembly, Germplasm characterization, Gene function identification, Genomic breeding (GB), and Gene editing (GE). In our view, it is important to have genome assemblies available for each crop and a deep collection of germplasm characterized at sequencing and agronomic levels for...
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