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Horticulture Research 10,
Article number: uhad016 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhad016
Views: 162
Received: 13 Nov 2022
Accepted: 26 Jan 2023
Published online: 01 Feb 2023
Ensuring food security for a rapidly growing world population will need new approaches. These include speed breeding and new breeding technologies, which have been established for major staple crops. Improvement of woody perennial fruit tree species has progressed at a much slower pace and has met many obstacles. Yet fruit production will face major challenges with climate change, such as the loss of winter chilling needed for flowering, a potential decrease in pollinator availability, and increasing pest and disease problems.