Translational research: from pot to plot.

摘要: Plant molecular biology has been the key driver to elucidate pathways underlying plant growth, development and stress responses during past decades. Although this led a plethora of available data, translation crop improvement is lagging behind. Here, we argue that scientists should become more involved in converting basic knowledge into applications crops sustainably support food security agriculture. As translatability from model species rather poor, kind translational research requires diligence thorough investigated trait crop. In addition, robustness depends on genotype environmental conditions, demanding holistic approach, which cannot always be evaluated under growth chamber greenhouse conditions. To date, improved resolution many genome-wide technologies emerging expertise canopy imaging, phenotyping field monitoring make it very timely move pathway specifics important agronomical realizations, thus pot plot. Despite availability scientific know-how expertise, new traits using transgene approach some regions world, such as Europe, seriously hampered by heavy nontranslucent legislation for biotech crops. Nevertheless, progress will remain highly dependent our ability evaluate varieties plead network protected sites trials across different European climates test directly