Forward Breeding for Efficient Selection

Abstract

Global food security is the numero uno priority in the current global situation, threatened by a number of challenges catalyzed by accelerated climate change and population growth. Crop improvement coupled with the modern plant breeding approaches, such as genomic-assisted breeding, is a proven solution to meet the food security. One of the key mandates in the modern plant breeding program is to combine the power of genomic selection into the breeding pipeline employing a low-cost genotyping solution. Several SNP marker-based platforms are now available depending on the objectives and field of application; despite the R. Bohar (✉) CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), c/o ICRISAT,