Translating functional molecular knowledge into crop-breeding success.

Abstract excerpt

Historical plant breeding, which optimizes phenotypes through selective crossing guided by phenotypic evaluation and molecular markers, is limited by evolutionary constraints that hinder rapid crop improvement. A new paradigm, precision breeding, circumvents these limitations by targeting genetic variants through functional molecular knowledge. To generate this knowledge at scale, sequence-based deep learning...

Topics

• Crops, Agricultural
• Plant Breeding
• Genome, Plant
• Genetic Variation
• Phenotype