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Harvesting the Promising Fruits of Genomics: Applying Genome Sequencing Technologies to Crop Breeding
Author(s) -
Rajeev K. Varshney,
Ryohei Terauchi,
Susan R. McCouch
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001883
Subject(s) - biology , genomics , genome , microbiology and biotechnology , crop , dna sequencing , genomic selection , computational biology , evolutionary biology , genetics , agronomy , gene , genotype , single nucleotide polymorphism
Rajeev Varshney, Ryohei Terauchi, and Susan McCouch summarize the current and future uses of next-generation sequencing technologies, both for developing crops with improved traits and for increasing the efficiency of modern plant breeding, as a step towards meeting the challenge of feeding a growing world population.

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