Perspectives for Integrated Insect Pest Protection in Oilseed Rape Breeding

Overview

Journal Theor Appl Genet

Publisher Springer

Specialty Genetics

Date 2022 Mar 16

PMID 35294574

Authors

Christian Obermeier

Annaliese S Mason

Torsten Meiners

Georg Petschenka

Michael Rostas

Torsten Will

Benjamin Wittkop

Nadine Austel

Affiliations

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Abstract

In the past, breeding for incorporation of insect pest resistance or tolerance into cultivars for use in integrated pest management schemes in oilseed rape/canola (Brassica napus) production has hardly ever been approached. This has been largely due to the broad availability of insecticides and the complexity of dealing with high-throughput phenotyping of insect performance and plant damage parameters. However, recent changes in the political framework in many countries demand future sustainable crop protection which makes breeding approaches for crop protection as a measure for pest insect control attractive again. At the same time, new camera-based tracking technologies, new knowledge-based genomic technologies and new scientific insights into the ecology of insect-Brassica interactions are becoming available. Here we discuss and prioritise promising breeding strategies and direct and indirect breeding targets, and their time-perspective for future realisation in integrated insect pest protection of oilseed rape. In conclusion, researchers and oilseed rape breeders can nowadays benefit from an array of new technologies which in combination will accelerate the development of improved oilseed rape cultivars with multiple insect pest resistances/tolerances in the near future.

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