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- Title
Improving Coconut Using Modern Breeding Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities.
- Authors
Arumugam, Thayalan; Hatta, Muhammad Asyraf Md
- Abstract
Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is a perennial palm with a wide range of distribution across tropical islands and coastlines. Multitude use of coconut by nature is important in the socio-economic fabric framework among rural smallholders in producing countries. It is a major source of income for 30 million farmers, while 60 million households rely on the coconut industry directly as farm workers and indirectly through the distribution, marketing, and processing of coconut and coconut-based products. Stagnant production, inadequate planting materials, the effects of climate change, as well as pests and diseases are among the key issues that need to be urgently addressed in the global coconut industry. Biotechnology has revolutionized conventional breeding approaches in creating genetic variation for trait improvement in a shorter period of time. In this review, we highlighted the challenges of current breeding strategies and the potential of biotechnological approaches, such as genomic-assisted breeding, next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based genotyping and genome editing tools in improving the coconut. Also, combining these technologies with high-throughput phenotyping approaches and speed breeding could speed up the rate of genetic gain in coconut breeding to solve problems that have been plaguing the industry for decades.
- Subjects
COCONUT palm; COCONUT products; GENOME editing; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; GENETIC variation; COCONUT; PALMS
- Publication
Plants (2223-7747), 2022, Vol 11, Issue 24, p3414
- ISSN
2223-7747
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/plants11243414