Editorial: Crop Yield and Quality Response to the Interaction Between Environment and Genetic Factors
Shuijin Hua, Maximiller Dal-Bianco, Zhong‐Hua Chen
Abstract
Crop yield and quality are important traits with many components. Crop yield is significantly correlated with flowering time or heading, plant height, branching or tillering, grain number, and grain weight, whereas quality is a result of metabolic flux attributed to compound biosynthesis and metabolism Although crop yield and quality are mainly controlled by genetics, the influence of the environment (including both biotic and abiotic factors) is increasingly recognized. In order to adapt to stress, the recovery of defense genes from exotic or wild relatives and re-modeling of the regulatory system may reduce damage to crops, which lack the option of physically escaping harsh environments like animals