Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security
Abstract The dual challenges of global population explosion and environmental deterioration represent major hurdles for 21st Century agriculture culminating in an unprecedented demand for food security. In this Review, we revisit historical concepts of plasticity and canalization before integrating...
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| author | Saleh Alseekh Annabella Klemmer Jianbing Yan Tingting Guo Alisdair R. Fernie |
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| description | Abstract The dual challenges of global population explosion and environmental deterioration represent major hurdles for 21st Century agriculture culminating in an unprecedented demand for food security. In this Review, we revisit historical concepts of plasticity and canalization before integrating them with contemporary studies of genotype-environment interactions (G×E) that are currently being carried out at the genome-wide level. In doing so we address both fundamental questions regarding G×E and potential strategies to best secure yields in both current and future climate scenarios. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4d76e5bbc1ec4d3db7e19f20a2fa83b02025-01-12T12:31:59ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232025-01-0116111210.1038/s41467-025-55872-4Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food securitySaleh Alseekh0Annabella Klemmer1Jianbing Yan2Tingting Guo3Alisdair R. Fernie4Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityNational Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityMax Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyAbstract The dual challenges of global population explosion and environmental deterioration represent major hurdles for 21st Century agriculture culminating in an unprecedented demand for food security. In this Review, we revisit historical concepts of plasticity and canalization before integrating them with contemporary studies of genotype-environment interactions (G×E) that are currently being carried out at the genome-wide level. In doing so we address both fundamental questions regarding G×E and potential strategies to best secure yields in both current and future climate scenarios.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55872-4 |
| spellingShingle | Saleh Alseekh Annabella Klemmer Jianbing Yan Tingting Guo Alisdair R. Fernie Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security Nature Communications |
| title | Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security |
| title_full | Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security |
| title_fullStr | Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security |
| title_short | Embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security |
| title_sort | embracing plant plasticity or robustness as a means of ensuring food security |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-55872-4 |
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