Turbocharging crop breeding with integrated biotechnology for a climate‐resilient future

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Authors: Zhao Wang, Dandan Yang, Cao Xu
Cited by: 3
References: 155

Abstract

Global agriculture faces unprecedented challenges from climate change and population growth, creating an urgent demand for the rapid development of resilient and high-yielding crop varieties. Although conventional breeding has achieved substantial progress in crop improvement, it is increasingly constrained by bottlenecks in genetic diversity, efficiency, and the uncertainty of trait inheritance under complex environments. Recent advances in integrative biotechnology offer transformative opportunities to reconfigure crop improvement into a predictive and design-driven process. This review synthesizes these advances into an integrated, multidisciplinary framework for precise breeding of climate-resilient crops, emphasizing the need to move beyond descriptive data accumulation toward mechanistic integration and beyond single-trait modification toward systems-level design. By integrating genome-phenome-environment insights with artificial intelligence-powered predictive modeling, we envision the rise of precise breeding frameworks capable of rapidly delivering climate-resilient, high-yielding crops. Such approaches are critical to fortifying agricultural systems, mitigating climate vulnerability, and securing a sustainable food future.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Climate change impacts on agriculture Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals Plant Molecular Biology Research

Publication details

Journal / source
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
68
Issue
8
Pages
2489–2510
Publication date
20 April 2026
Language
EN