Plant breeding focuses on developing superior crop varieties with enhanced yield, nutritional quality, disease resistance, and tolerance to environmental stresses. By integrating conventional breeding methods with modern genomic and molecular technologies, researchers are accelerating the development of improved crops for sustainable agriculture.
Innovations in marker-assisted selection, genomic selection, hybrid breeding, and gene editing are transforming crop improvement programs and helping address global challenges related to food security and climate change.
This session will highlight recent advances in plant breeding, crop genetics, breeding technologies, trait improvement, and sustainable strategies for developing next-generation crop varieties.