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Abstract

Genetic improvement through breeding is one of the key approaches to increasing biomass supply. This paper documents the breeding progress to date for four perennial biomass crops (PBCs) that have high output–input energy ratios: namely Panicum virgatum (switchgrass), species of the genera Miscanthus (miscanthus), Salix (willow) and Populus (poplar). For each crop, we report on the size of germplasm collections, the efforts to date to phenotype and genotype, the diversity available for breeding and on the scale of breeding work as indicated by number of attempted crosses. We also report on the development of faster and more precise breeding using molecular breeding techniques. Poplar is the model tree for genetic studies and is furthest ahead in terms of biological knowledge and genetic resources. Linkage maps, transgenesis and genome editing methods are now being used in commercially focused poplar breeding. These are in development in switchgrass, miscanthus and willow generating large genetic and phenotypic data sets requiring concomitant efforts in informatics to create summaries that can be accessed and used by practical breeders. Cultivars of switchgrass and miscanthus can be seed-based synthetic populations, semihybrids or clones. Willow and poplar cultivars are commercially deployed as clones. At local and regional level, the most advanced cultivars in each crop are at technology readiness levels which could be scaled to planting rates of thousands of hectares per year in about 5 years with existing commercial developers. Investment in further development of better cultivars is subject to current market failure and the long breeding cycles. We conclude that sustained public investment in breeding plays a key role in delivering future mass-scale deployment of PBCs.

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Title
Breeding progress and preparedness for mass-scale deployment of perennial lignocellulosic biomass crops switchgrass, miscanthus, willow and poplar
Author
Clifton-Brown, John 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Harfouche, Antoine 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Casler, Michael D 3 ; Jones, Huw Dylan 1 ; Macalpine, William J 4 ; Murphy-Bokern, Donal 5 ; Smart, Lawrence B 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Adler, Anneli 7 ; Ashman, Chris 1 ; Awty-Carroll, Danny 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bastien, Catherine 8 ; Bopper, Sebastian 9 ; Botnari, Vasile 10   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Brancourt-Hulmel, Maryse 11 ; Chen, Zhiyong 12 ; Clark, Lindsay V 13   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Cosentino, Salvatore 14   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Dalton, Sue 1 ; Davey, Chris 1 ; Dolstra, Oene 15 ; Donnison, Iain 1 ; Flavell, Richard 16 ; Greef, Joerg 17 ; Hanley, Steve 4 ; Hastings, Astley 18 ; Hertzberg, Magnus 19 ; Tsai-Wen, Hsu 20 ; Huang, Lin S 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Iurato, Antonella 1 ; Jensen, Elaine 1 ; Jin, Xiaoli 21 ; Jørgensen, Uffe 22 ; Kiesel, Andreas 23 ; Do-Soon, Kim 24 ; Liu, Jianxiu 25 ; McCalmont, Jon P 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; McMahon, Bernard G 26 ; Mos, Michal 27 ; Robson, Paul 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sacks, Erik J 13 ; Sandu, Anatolii 10   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Scalici, Giovanni 14 ; Schwarz, Kai 17 ; Scordia, Danilo 14   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Shafiei, Reza 28   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Shield, Ian 4 ; Slavov, Gancho 4 ; Stanton, Brian J 29 ; Swaminathan, Kankshita 30 ; Taylor, Gail 31   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Torres, Andres F 15 ; Trindade, Luisa M 15 ; Tschaplinski, Timothy 32 ; Tuskan, Gerald A 32 ; Yamada, Toshihiko 33 ; Yu, Chang Yeon 34 ; Zalesny, Ronald S, Jr 35 ; Zong, Junqin 25 ; Lewandowski, Iris 23   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK 
 Department for Innovation in Biological, Agrofood and Forest systems, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy 
 USDA-ARS, U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin 
 Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK 
 Lohne, Germany 
 Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Geneva, New York 
 SweTree Technologies AB, Umeå, Sweden; Institute of Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden 
 INRA-BIOFORA, Orléans, France 
 Department of Seed Science and Technology, Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany 
10  Institute of Genetics, Physiology and Plant Protection (IGFPP) of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova 
11  INRA-AgroImpact, Péronne cedex, France 
12  Insitute of Miscanthus, Hunan Agricultural University, Hunan Changsha, China 
13  Department of Crop Sciences & Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, 279 Edward R Madigan Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 
14  Dipartimento di Agricoltura Alimentazione e Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy 
15  Plant Breeding, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands 
16  Battersea, London, UK 
17  Julius Kuhn-Institut (JKI), Bundesforschungsinstitut fur Kulturpflanzen, Braunschweig, Germany 
18  Institute of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK 
19  SweTree Technologies AB, Umeå, Sweden 
20  Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute (TESRI), Nantou County, Taiwan 
21  Department of Agronomy & The Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Resource of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China 
22  Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University Centre for Circular Bioeconomy, Tjele, Denmark 
23  Department of Biobased Products and Energy Crops, Institute of Crop Science, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany 
24  Department of Plant Sciences, Research Institute of Agriculture & Life Sciences, CALS, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 
25  Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China 
26  Natural Resources Research Institute, University of Minnesota – Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota 
27  Energene sp. z o.o., Wrocław, Poland 
28  James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 
29  GreenWood Resources, Inc., Portland, Oregon 
30  Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama 
31  Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 
32  The Center for Bioenergy Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 
33  Field Science Centre for the Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 
34  College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 2, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea 
35  USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Rhinelander, Wisconsin 
Pages
118-151
Section
PLATFORM
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Jan 2019
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
ISSN
17571693
e-ISSN
17571707
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2177334261
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.