Sustainable agriculture in the era of omics: knowledge-driven crop breeding

Abstract

Global population has reached up to 7.8 billion and is expected to exceed 10 billion by 2055 (https://countrymeters.info/cn/World). Such rapid population increase presents a great challenge for food supply. On the one hand, more grains are needed to provide basic calories for humans. On the other hand, the rising living standard leads to a changing diet habit towards higher average consumption of livestock and dairy products, especially in developing countries. Thus, crop yield boost is needed to fill the gap between food production and demand. Meanwhile, food nutritional values are of more interest to accommodate industrialized modern lives.

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