ReviewNature plants2022
Crucial factors for the feasibility of commercial hybrid breeding in food crops.
Review in Nature plants, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Dynamics of Gene and Allelic Expression During Modern Hybrid Maize Breeding.Plant biotechnology journal · 2026Article
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- Genetic Resources of Cereal and Oilseed Crops for Heterotic Hybrid Breeding.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- From convention to innovation: the role of genetic modification and genome editing in Australian wheat breeding.AoB PLANTS · 2025Review
- Comparative transcriptomic analysis of heterotic maize development during kernel filling.Plant molecular biology · 2025Article
- Genetic Analysis and Fine Mapping of Spontaneously Mutated Male Sterility Gene in Chinese Cabbage (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring the genetic variation of wheat-Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
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- Identification, Elucidation and Deployment of a Cytoplasmic Male Sterility System for Hybrid Potato.Biology · 2024Article
- What plant breeding may (and may not) look like in 2050?The plant genome · 2024Review
- The Fastest and Most Reliable Identification of True Hybrids in the GenusLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Multiomics comparative analysis of the maize large grain mutant tc19 identified pathways related to kernel development.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Chemical emasculation in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.) and dicotyledonous model species using trifluoromethanesulfonamide (TFMSA).Plant reproduction · 2023Article
- Molecular dissection of heterosis in cereal roots and their rhizosphere.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023Review
- Responsible Innovation in Plant Breeding: The Case of Hybrid Potato Breeding.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Transgressive and parental dominant gene expression and cytosine methylation during seed development in Brassica napus hybrids.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023Article
- Converting Hybrid Potato Breeding Science into Practice.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Stacked ensembles on basis of parentage information can predict hybrid performance with an accuracy comparable to marker-based GBLUP.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Improving Yield and Yield Stability in Winter Rye by Hybrid Breeding.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
There is an ongoing societal debate about plant breeding systems and their impact on stakeholders in food systems. Hybrid breeding and hybrid seed have become controversial topics as they are believed to mostly serve high-tech agricultural systems. This article focuses on the perspective of commercial plant breeders when developing new cultivars of food crops. Arguably, hybrid breeding is the most effective breeding system for genetic improvement of crops, enhancing yields, improving product quality and increasing resistance against (a)biotic stresses. Nonetheless, hybrid breeding is not commercially applied in all crops. We analyse how biological and economic factors determine whether a commercial plant breeder opts for the hybrid system or not. We show that the commercial feasibility of hybrid breeding depends on the crop and business case. In conclusion, the commercial application of hybrid breeding in crops seems to be hampered mostly by high costs of seed production. Case studies regarding the hybrid transitions in maize, wheat and potato are included to illustrate these findings.
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