Overcoming reproductive barriers: genetic and molecular insights for enhanced crop breeding
摘要
Plant breeding has made significant progress in developing robust crop cultivars that can thrive in challenging environments, as well as suitable cultivars for industrial agriculture. Among the various plant breeding technologies, wide hybridization and introgression breeding are valuable tools, as genes conferring resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses from wild plants can be utilized for crop improvement. However, reproductive barriers between crop plants and their wild relatives remain a major obstacle to achieving this goal. Understanding the latest genetic and molecular aspects of these barriers offers promising strategies to overcome them. In this review, we compile information on reproductive isolation genes in several important crops and discuss approaches to overcoming these barriers to enable more efficient wide hybridization and introgression breeding.