Perennials as Future Grain Crops: Opportunities and Challenges

Perennials as Future Grain Crops: Opportunities and Challenges

Perennial grain crops could make a valuable addition to sustainable agriculture, potentially even as an alternative to their annual counterparts. The ability of perennials to grow year after year significantly reduces the number of agricultural inputs required, in terms of both planting and weed con...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth A. Chapman, Hanne Cecilie Thomsen, Sophia Tulloch, Pedro M. P. Correia, Guangbin Luo, Javad Najafi, Lee R. DeHaan, Timothy E. Crews, Lennart Olsson, Per-Olof Lundquist, Anna Westerbergh, Pai Rosager Pedas, Søren Knudsen, Michael Palmgren
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
breeding
domestication
genome editing
grain crops
perennialism
species-wide hybridization
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.898769/full

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