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T1 Sustainable agriculture through perennial grains: Wheat, rice, maize, and other species. A review
A1 Soto Gómez, Diego
A1 Pérez Rodríguez, Paula
K1 Breeding
K1 Domestication
K1 Hybridization
K1 Kernza
K1 Perenniality
K1 Ratooning
K1 Sustainability
K1 Agricultura
K1 Agriculture
K1 Edafología
K1 Soil science
AB Grain crops are an important part of the human diet, accounting for a third of the consumed calories. Throughout human history, annual grain crops with high yields have been obtained through domestication. However, the “annual” characteristic brings associated a series of economic and environmental disadvantages, such as soil erosion or low soil resources use, that can be solved if the agriculture of annual varieties evolves towards perenniality. For this reason, there are numerous research groups dedicated to study and obtain perennial varieties of the most cultivated grain crops. In this review article, we have summarized the most important advances related to the subject, focusing on the domestication and hybridization of the most productive grains globally: wheat, rice, maize, rye and sorghum. We highlight their benefits for sustainable agriculture worldwide due to perennial grains may contribute to reducing erosion, acting avoiding carbon losses, reducing nutrient losses to waters or capturing nutrients deeper in soil when they are scarce, reducing farm costs and thus, increasing the effectiveness of agricultural grain crops. Despite perennial grain crops having disadvantages, they possess outstanding characteristics which make them resilient crops to deal with the imminent climate change. However, maintaining the perenniality trait without reducing genetic biodiversity is a great challenge of current scientific importance that must be deeply considered.
PB Elsevier
SN 0167-8809
YR 2021
FD 2021-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11127
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11127
LA eng
NO Diego Soto-Gómez was granted by the Postdoctoral fellowship Juan de la Cierva Formación: FJC2019-039176-I funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation MCIN 10.13039/501100011033 and Paula P´ erez-Rodríguez was supported by a Postdoctoral fellowship funded by Galicia Regional Government: Consellería de Cultura, Educaci´ on e Universidade, Xunta de Galicia, ED481D-2021/016, Spain. This research has received funding for open access charge by Universidade de Vigo/CISUG.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 17-abr-2026