Experts from the Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences suggest strengthening research on multi-grain crops to meet diversified food needs

Recently, Meiliang Zhou's team from the Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Professor Mark A.

According to researcher Meiliang Zhou, the increase in the world population and changes in the environment and climate have brought severe challenges to the realization of the 2030 Global Zero Hunger Plan

The article pointed out that compared with the main grain crops, the lack of key gene mining and genomics information of multi-grain crops has restricted their genetic improvement process to a certain extent

The paper also suggested that countries should pay more attention to the investigation and collection of multigrain crop germplasm resources, the protection of genetic diversity, Accurate identification of genotypes and phenotypes and direct development and utilization of germplasm resources ensure that multigrain crops can be used as strategic reserve gene banks to meet the challenges of food security and nutritional homogeneity brought about by global population growth and climate change

Researcher Meiliang Zhou is the corresponding author of the paper, Prof.

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