Crop Breeding for Food and Nutrition Security
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2025) | Viewed by 4153
Special Issue Editor
Interests: crop breeding and genomics; plant breeding; crop intensification; enabling environment; plant ideotype; yield potential
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Dear Colleagues,
Food and nutrition insecurity present significant challenges, particularly in the developing world, where crop production and proactivity are extremely low. Consequently, many countries need to import large quantities of agricultural products, which consumes a huge proportion of their resources. Crop breeding represents a major tool used to increase productivity and thereby improve food supply in terms of both quantity and quality. Breeding technologies need to be developed and disseminated to farming communities to adequately address food and nutrition security issues through the development of improved varieties. Crop breeding depends on discovering, selecting and utilizing genetic variations for the trait(s) of interest. A number of conventional and modern breeding tools have been implemented in the last 100 years to boost productivity and enhance the nutritional quality of diverse crops. New plant breeding technologies (NPBTs) have been applied in recent years to further boost productivity through increasing resilience to environmental challenges. In this Special Issue, both original research and review manuscripts related to crop breeding and their role in food and nutritional security are accepted. Hence, we encourage submissions exploring both conventional and NPBT methods of plant breeding.
Prof. Dr. Zerihun Tadele
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- crop breeding
- food security
- nutrition security
- conventional breeding
- NPBT
- crop productivity
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