Enhancing quality traits in staple crops: current advances and future perspectives

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2025.05.001

• Changfeng Yang ^a , 
• Lichun Huang ^b , 
• Bai-Chen Wang ^c , 
• Yingxin Zhong ^d , 
• Xiaohui Ma ^e , 
• Changquan Zhang ^b , 
• Qixin Sun ^a , 
• Yongrui Wu ^f     , 
• Yingyin Yao ^a     , 
• Qiaoquan Liu ^b    

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  a. Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding, Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization (MOE), Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China;

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  b. Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, Zhongshan Biological Breeding Laboratory, Yangzhou Modern Seed Innovation Institute (Gaoyou), Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu 225009, China;

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  c. State Key Laboratory of Forage Breeding-by-Design and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Photobiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China;

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  d. National Technique Innovation Center for Regional Wheat Production/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology and Ecology in Southern China, Ministry of Agriculture/Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China;

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  e. Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China;

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  f. National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai 200032, China