Crop diversity: Breadfruit's checkered past bears fruit for food security

Chance W Riggins

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.033

Crop diversity: Breadfruit's checkered past bears fruit for food security

Curr Biol. 2023 Jan 23;33(2):R75-R77. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.033.

Author

Chance W Riggins¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: cwriggin@illinois.edu.

PMID: 36693314
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.033

Abstract

New interdisciplinary research on breadfruit helps reconcile cultivar names with genotypic and phenotypic diversity across time, continents, and cultures. The findings will advance breeding and conservation initiatives for this underutilized crop, but also highlight methodological challenges commonplace in crop evolutionary studies.

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MeSH terms

Artocarpus*
Food Security
Fruit* / genetics
Genotype
Plant Breeding