TY - JOUR

T1 - Improving crop yield potential

T2 - Underlying biological processes and future prospects

AU - Burgess, Alexandra J.

AU - Masclaux-Daubresse, Céline

AU - Strittmatter, Günter

AU - Weber, Andreas P.M.

AU - Taylor, Samuel Harry

AU - Harbinson, Jeremy

AU - Yin, Xinyou

AU - Long, Stephen

AU - Paul, Matthew J.

AU - Westhoff, Peter

AU - Loreto, Francesco

AU - Ceriotti, Aldo

AU - Saltenis, Vandasue L.R.

AU - Pribil, Mathias

AU - Nacry, Philippe

AU - Scharff, Lars B.

AU - Jensen, Poul Erik

AU - Muller, Bertrand

AU - Cohan, Jean Pierre

AU - Foulkes, John

AU - Rogowsky, Peter

AU - Debaeke, Philippe

AU - Meyer, Christian

AU - Nelissen, Hilde

AU - Inzé, Dirk

AU - Klein Lankhorst, René

AU - Parry, Martin A.J.

AU - Murchie, Erik H.

AU - Baekelandt, Alexandra

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Food and Energy Security published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

N2 - The growing world population and global increases in the standard of living both result in an increasing demand for food, feed and other plant-derived products. In the coming years, plant-based research will be among the major drivers ensuring food security and the expansion of the bio-based economy. Crop productivity is determined by several factors, including the available physical and agricultural resources, crop management, and the resource use efficiency, quality and intrinsic yield potential of the chosen crop. This review focuses on intrinsic yield potential, since understanding its determinants and their biological basis will allow to maximize the plant's potential in food and energy production. Yield potential is determined by a variety of complex traits that integrate strictly regulated processes and their underlying gene regulatory networks. Due to this inherent complexity, numerous potential targets have been identified that could be exploited to increase crop yield. These encompass diverse metabolic and physical processes at the cellular, organ and canopy level. We present an overview of some of the distinct biological processes considered to be crucial for yield determination that could further be exploited to improve future crop productivity.

AB - The growing world population and global increases in the standard of living both result in an increasing demand for food, feed and other plant-derived products. In the coming years, plant-based research will be among the major drivers ensuring food security and the expansion of the bio-based economy. Crop productivity is determined by several factors, including the available physical and agricultural resources, crop management, and the resource use efficiency, quality and intrinsic yield potential of the chosen crop. This review focuses on intrinsic yield potential, since understanding its determinants and their biological basis will allow to maximize the plant's potential in food and energy production. Yield potential is determined by a variety of complex traits that integrate strictly regulated processes and their underlying gene regulatory networks. Due to this inherent complexity, numerous potential targets have been identified that could be exploited to increase crop yield. These encompass diverse metabolic and physical processes at the cellular, organ and canopy level. We present an overview of some of the distinct biological processes considered to be crucial for yield determination that could further be exploited to improve future crop productivity.

KW - crop improvement

KW - crop yield

KW - food supply

KW - nutrient remobilisation

KW - organ growth

KW - photosynthesis

U2 - 10.1002/fes3.435

DO - 10.1002/fes3.435

M3 - Review

C2 - 37035025

AN - SCOPUS:85141376837

VL - 12

JO - Food and Energy Security

JF - Food and Energy Security

SN - 2048-3694

IS - 1

ER -