Breeding strategies to improve rice yields: an overview Christophe Dupin

Breeding strategies to improve rice yields: an overview Christophe DupinThis chapter examines three different major strategies designed to break the yield barrier so that rice production keeps up with population growth: new ideotype breeding, heterosis and green super rice. The chapter shows that exploring the genetic diversity of wild Oryza species may lead to identification of novel and superior alleles, which may have been ignored during the process of crop domestication. The chapter describes the traits determining

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