Enhancing crop productivity through increased abiotic-stress tolerance and biomass production

Abstract

Crop production faces many challenges, due to changing environmental conditions and evolving needs for new plant-derived materials. No one approach will provide all the solutions. Rather, progress will be made by combining the existing approaches of breeding, enhanced by molecular markers linked to traits of interest, mining of novel alleles from germplasm collections, and introduction of novel alleles or variants of existing alleles from mutant populations