Crop Genomics in South America

The need for increasing food production is a constant and challenging demand on crop breeding around the world. Major crops in South America have been benefiting from genomic approaches and production is constantly increasing. An x-ray vision on the potential expansion and limitations on major crops such as soybean, maize, wheat and rice is needed to draw our future agriculture. Global climate changes reflecting on novel biotic and abiotic stresses are the major challenges on crops for the upcoming years. Critical decisions on the use of GM crops have boosted soybean, maize and cotton crops, but advances in other crops are yet to be approved.