Current Situation and Prospect of Forage Breeding in China

Authors

Jingbo JIN, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Tai WANG, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Youfa CHENG, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Lei WANG, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Jingyu ZHANG, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Haichun JING, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Kang CHONG, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

Keywords

forage; breeding technology; molecular design-based breeding; genome-wide association studies; whole genome selection breeding

Document Type

High-quality Development of Grass-based Livestock Husbandry

Abstract

High-yield and high-quality forage varieties are the key to sustainable development of grass-based livestock husbandry in China. However, the forage breeding was started late in China, and the progress is very slow, and the forage varieties of independent intellectual property rights are seriously lacked. Forages generally have self-incompatibility, natural allogamy, polysomic inheritance, and marked inbreeding effects. Subsequently, it is difficult to characterize agronomically important complex traits, resulting that the breeding technology is still in the 2.0 era of hybrid breeding. The molecular design-based breeding is a fine strategy to speed up the breeding process, however, there is a lack of theoretical and technical system for the molecular design-based forage breeding. Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched the strategic priority program "Establishing Scientific and Technological System of Ecological Grass and Animal Husbandry", to dissect complex forage genomes, establish a new molecular design-based forage breeding technologies, and breed high-yield and high-quality forage varieties with independent intellectual property rights.

First page

660

Last Page

665

Language

Chinese

Publisher

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Recommended Citation

JIN, Jingbo; WANG, Tai; CHENG, Youfa; WANG, Lei; ZHANG, Jingyu; JING, Haichun; and CHONG, Kang (2021) "Current Situation and Prospect of Forage Breeding in China," Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version): Vol. 36 : Iss. 6 , Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16418/j.issn.1000-3045.20210511003
Available at: https://bulletinofcas.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss6/7