Breeding Forage Crop Meets the Needs of a Sustainable Agriculture

Abstract:

Sustainable agricultural systems tend to have a positive effect on natural, social and human capital, while unsustainable ones feedback to deplete these assets, leaving fewer for future generations. Forage crop are critical to sustainable agriculture and contribute extensively to the world economy. Tremendous progress has been made in genetic transformation of forage and turf grasses in the past decade. The rapida dvancement of cellular and molecular biology and transgenic technology provides novel methods to accelerate and complement conventional breeding efforts. This review summarizes the latest advances of breeding forage crop and introduces the development of sustainable agriculture as well as perspectives the important role of breeding forage crop in development of sustainable agriculture in the future.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 1073-1076)
• Pages: 1104-1107
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1073-1076.1104
• Online since: December 2014
• Authors: Hong Dao Zhang, Ping Chen, Jing Zhang, Ji Di Gao, Ji Lin Li, Yan Ming Zhang*
• Keywords: Forage Crop, Plant Breeding, Sustainable Agriculture

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