Nice discussion. Molecular breeding has far distinctive advantage over conventional breeding. Identifying prebreeding parents with desired traits has become far more meaningful with molecular breeding...
Nice discussion. Molecular breeding has far distinctive advantage over conventional breeding. Identifying prebreeding parents with desired traits has become far more meaningful with molecular breeding...
Molecular assisted breeding will shorten the breeding cycle in conventional breeding. Identify your trait of interest, identify the gene controlling it and it is easy to use MAS in conventional breeding.
In my opinion Molecular breeding has more useful in development of climate resilient crops. If you have important known QTLs you can easily transfer via mol breeding
Molecular assisted breading (MAS) has very high potential but the establishment of a laboratory if not present is a huge cost in the short term. However, if possible it would cut up to 1/3 the time for select prebreeding material (this however depends a lot on the type of plants). MAS will have higher impact in the nearby future, due to development of much more precise techniques (SSR, SNPs etc.).
I would like then to ask another question, regarding the MAS:
is this whole breeding going to be supported or at least put beside CRISPR?
What about sustainability Francesco Desiderio Vijay Gahlaut Thirugnanavel Anbazhagan Sonali Kar Pooja Yadav
Dear Vikas Ramteke,
I understand your concerns about sustainability if you are talking about laboratory waste produced compared to traditional breeding techniques, I could say that the environmental cost is high only if the laboraty itself is not well managed. Modular laboratories are easy to build and have a series of advantages and disadvantages which can be found here: Article Perspective Piece Modular Laboratories-Cost-Effective and Su...
However the biggest concern I would have, would be about management of waste. Plastic and mono use material are necessary to assess things such as DNA or protein purity, microorganisms handling etc. but all those come at a high environmental cost. However, if we would follow WHO protocols this would help us to better handle our (chemical) waste. The WHO powerpoint is in the attachment.
Finally, I've found this nice paper from Nature about reduction of waste in the laboratory. Not only for the environment, but as well for the cost of our research, which could decrease to 40%. Link to Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/502170a.
However if you were instead referring to sustainability from an economic point of view the moleular breeding is much more expensive in the short term.
Please correct me I've misunderstood your question.
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