In order to mitigate drought, there have been increased efforts to breed drought-tolerant rice varieties by both conventional and molecular breeding approaches (Kumar et al. 2014).
An insightful review of different backcrossing and breeding approaches is provided by Ribaut and Ragot (2007).
Future breeding approaches must focus on developing cultivars with durable, broad-spectrum resistance.
This could complement current potato breeding approaches that exploit naturally occurring R genes found in wild potato species.
Modern breeding approaches such as genetic engineering and gene editing can be used to modify these varieties for specific traits.
Securing global food supply and coping with climate change requires new plant breeding approaches for the selection of favourable genotypes.
Advances in genomic technologies coupled with breeding approaches have helped scientists unravel the genes responsible for drought tolerance in crops.
These new tools can complement conventional breeding approaches by providing more controlled and faster ways for creating genetic variability.
While MAGIC populations offer a number of advantages for the extraction of new alleles, additional breeding approaches should be considered depending on breeding objectives.
Such knowledge of molecular basis of grain yield in rice can be exploited in yield improvement programs via gene pyramiding and/or the breeding approaches.
After marginal success of conventional breeding approaches to develop a stress tolerant trait, the transgenic approach appears to be a boon to breed stress resistant crops.
