Growing concerns over food insecurity and ecosystems health related to population growth and climate change have challenged scientists to develop new crops, employing revolutionary technologies in combination with traditional methods. In this review, we discuss the domestication of the oilseed-producing cover crop pennycress, which along with the development of other new crops and improvements to farming practices can provide sustainable solutions to address malnutrition and environmental impacts of production agriculture. We highlight some of the new technologies such as bioinformatics-enabled next-generation sequencing and CRISPR genome editing in combination with traditional mutation breeding that has accelerated pennycress development as a new crop and a potential model system. Furthermore, we provide a brief overview of the technologies that can be integrated for improving pennycress and other crops and the status of pennycress development using these technologies.
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In recent years, an array of emerging technologies are propelling plant science in new directions and allowing for the integration of data across multiple scales. This special issue on Emerging Topics in Plant Science brings together reviews that spotlight a range of technologies that are changing how we ask questions and integrate those questions from the macromolecular to ecosystem scales.
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March 23 2021
Technologies enabling rapid crop improvements for sustainable agriculture: example pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Available to Purchase
M. David Marks;
M. David Marks
1Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A.
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Ratan Chopra;
Ratan Chopra
1Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A.
2Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, U.S.A.
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John C. Sedbrook
3School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790, U.S.A.
Correspondence: John C. Sedbrook ([email protected])
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Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Received:
December 21 2020
Revision Received:
February 17 2021
Accepted:
March 04 2021
Online ISSN: 2397-8562
Print ISSN: 2397-8554
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Portland Press Limited on behalf of the Biochemical Society and the Royal Society of Biology
2021
Emerg Top Life Sci (2021) 5 (2): 325–335.
Article history
Received:
December 21 2020
Revision Received:
February 17 2021
Accepted:
March 04 2021
Citation
M. David Marks, Ratan Chopra, John C. Sedbrook; Technologies enabling rapid crop improvements for sustainable agriculture: example pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.). Emerg Top Life Sci 21 May 2021; 5 (2): 325–335. doi: https://doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20200330
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