Author:
He Rui,Ju Jun,Liu Kaizhe,Song Jiali,Zhang Shuchang,Zhang Minggui,Hu Youzhi,Liu Xiaojuan,Li Yamin,Liu Houcheng
Abstract
Sustaining crop production and food security are threatened by a burgeoning world population and adverse environmental conditions. Traditional breeding methods for vegetable crops are time-consuming, laborious, and untargeted, often taking several years to develop new and improved varieties. The challenges faced by a long breeding cycle need to be overcome. The speed breeding (SB) approach is broadly employed in crop breeding, which greatly shortens breeding cycles and facilities plant growth to obtain new, better-adapted crop varieties as quickly as possible. Potential opportunities are offered by SB in plant factories, where optimal photoperiod, light quality, light intensity, temperature, CO2 concentration, and nutrients are precisely manipulated to enhance the growth of horticultural vegetable crops, holding promise to surmount the long-standing problem of lengthy crop breeding cycles. Additionally, integrated with other breeding technologies, such as genome editing, genomic selection, and high-throughput genotyping, SB in plant factories has emerged as a smart and promising platform to hasten generation turnover and enhance the efficiency of breeding in vegetable crops. This review considers the pivotal opportunities and challenges of SB in plant factories, aiming to accelerate plant generation turnover and improve vegetable crops with precision and efficiency.
Reference91 articles.
1. Effect of plant density on flowering date, yield and quality attribute of bush beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) under center pivot iirrigation system;Abubaker;Am. J. Agric. Biol. Sci.,2008
2. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) as agricultural lighting: Impact and its potential on improving physiology, flowering, and secondary metabolites of crops;Al Murad;Sustain,2021
3. Climate change, its impact on crop production, challenges, and possible solutions;Alotaibi;Not. Bot. Horti Agrobot. Cluj-Napoca.,2023
4. Effect of plant density and different irrigation strategieson crop yield and canopy cover of red beans, Phaseolusvulgaris L. cv. Akhtar;Asemanrafat;Iran Agric. Res.,2023
5. In vitro embryo culture to shorten the breeding cycle in lentil (Lens culinaris Medik);Bermejo;Plant Cell. Tissue Organ Cult.,2016