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Table 2

Morpho-physiological traits of interest for choosing varieties or breeding according to priorities: market-oriented production, adaptation to new environments or new cropping systems, provision of ecosystem services.

    Crop development Increased plant growth and resource capture Increased resource-use efficiency Floral biology Abiotic Stress Resistance Disease resistance Bird resistance Non-kernel
composition
Kernel composition
(genotype)

  Priorities Maturity groups (MGs) or
timing to anthesis
Plant vigor (Canopy cover, Leaf area index ) Shoot biomass Plant height Root biomass & depth Nutrient-use efficiency Water use efficiency Cold Heat Drought       Oil
Market-oriented production Oil % * (late) **     *   *     * * * * (prevent low plant density) * (hull fraction) ***
Oleic acid % * *             * (lately) * *       ***
Protein %         * *       * *     * (hull fraction) **
Other non-food by-products     ** *                   ** **
Adaptation to new environments Early sowing (stress escape) * (late) **     *       ** (early)   * ** (mildew) ** (sowing)    
Supplemental irrigation * (late)       * **         ** (sclerotinia, phomopsis)      
Crop shift to northern areas * (early) *     *       * (early + lately) * * (sclerotinia) ** (sowing)   non-oleic types
Adaptation to new cropping systems Increased cultivated diversity (field) ** mixture of MGs * * * **   *   ** mixture of resistances   ***
Increased cultivated diversity (farm) - yield stability ** different MGs *         *     ** ** ** (multi-resistant) *    
Double cropping ** (very early) **     *   **   * (lately) ** * * (sclerotinia, botrytis) * (maturity)   non-oleic types
Organic farming Low-input * (early if late-sown) ** * * ** ** *     * * ** (multi-resistant) *    
Reduced tillage   ** *   ** * *       * ** (soilborne diseases) *    
Agroforestry   * * * * * *         * (sclerotinia) *    
Provision of ecosystem services Biocontrol (allelopathy…)     *   *                 ** (allelochemicals)  
Rotation fertility   * *   ** * *         *   *  
Pollinators ** mixture of MGs             ** small flowers
** nectar + pollen
  * *   * (prevent low plant density)    
Phyto-remediation     **   ** *               **  

*, **, ***: indicates the importance of considering the trait. The terms between brackets precise some trait characteristics (e.g. early or late-maturing variety, critical growth stage…).

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