Plant breeding,one of the oldest agricultural activities,parallels human civilization.Many crops have been domesticated to satisfy human's food and aesthetical needs,including numerous specialty horticultural crop...Plant breeding,one of the oldest agricultural activities,parallels human civilization.Many crops have been domesticated to satisfy human's food and aesthetical needs,including numerous specialty horticultural crops such as fruits,vegetables,ornamental flowers,shrubs,and trees.Crop varieties originated through selection during early human civilization.Other technologies,such as various forms of hybridization,mutation,and transgenics,have also been invented and applied to crop breeding over the past centuries.The progress made in these breeding technologies,especially the modern biotechnology-based breeding technologies,has had a great impact on crop breeding as well as on our lives.Here,we first review the developmental process and applications of these technologies in horticultural crop breeding.Then,we mainly describe the principles of the latest genome-editing technologies and discuss their potential applications in the genetic improvement of horticultural crops.The advantages and challenges of genome-editing technologies in horticultural crop breeding are also discussed.展开更多
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 31401849 to J-S X).
文摘Plant breeding,one of the oldest agricultural activities,parallels human civilization.Many crops have been domesticated to satisfy human's food and aesthetical needs,including numerous specialty horticultural crops such as fruits,vegetables,ornamental flowers,shrubs,and trees.Crop varieties originated through selection during early human civilization.Other technologies,such as various forms of hybridization,mutation,and transgenics,have also been invented and applied to crop breeding over the past centuries.The progress made in these breeding technologies,especially the modern biotechnology-based breeding technologies,has had a great impact on crop breeding as well as on our lives.Here,we first review the developmental process and applications of these technologies in horticultural crop breeding.Then,we mainly describe the principles of the latest genome-editing technologies and discuss their potential applications in the genetic improvement of horticultural crops.The advantages and challenges of genome-editing technologies in horticultural crop breeding are also discussed.
