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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mutation discovery for crop improvement
AU - Parry, Martin A. J.
AU - Madgwick, Pippa J.
AU - Bayon, Carlos
AU - Tearall, Katie
AU - Hernandez-Lopez, Antonio
AU - Baudo, Marcela
AU - Rakszegi, Mariann
AU - Hamada, Walid
AU - Al-Yassin, Adnan
AU - Ouabbou, Hassan
AU - Labhilili, Mustapha
AU - Phillips, Andrew L.
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - Increasing crop yields to ensure food security is a major challenge. Mutagenesis is an important tool in crop improvement and is free of the regulatory restrictions imposed on genetically modified organisms. The forward genetic approach enables the identification of improved or novel phenotypes that can be exploited in conventional breeding programmes. Powerful reverse genetic strategies that allow the detection of induced point mutations in individuals of the mutagenized populations can address the major challenge of linking sequence information to the biological function of genes and can also identify novel variation for plant breeding. This review briefly discusses recent advances in the detection of mutants and the potential of mutagenesis for crop improvement. The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology]. All rights reserved.
AB - Increasing crop yields to ensure food security is a major challenge. Mutagenesis is an important tool in crop improvement and is free of the regulatory restrictions imposed on genetically modified organisms. The forward genetic approach enables the identification of improved or novel phenotypes that can be exploited in conventional breeding programmes. Powerful reverse genetic strategies that allow the detection of induced point mutations in individuals of the mutagenized populations can address the major challenge of linking sequence information to the biological function of genes and can also identify novel variation for plant breeding. This review briefly discusses recent advances in the detection of mutants and the potential of mutagenesis for crop improvement. The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology]. All rights reserved.
KW - Breeding
KW - Crop
KW - Mutagenesis
KW - TILLING
KW - Wheat
U2 - 10.1093/jxb/erp189
DO - 10.1093/jxb/erp189
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 19516074
AN - SCOPUS:67650876475
VL - 60
SP - 2817
EP - 2825
JO - Journal of Experimental Botany
JF - Journal of Experimental Botany
SN - 0022-0957
IS - 10
ER -