Crop science is one of the core branches of agricultural sciences, which plays an important role in ensuring national food security and adequate supply of agricultural products, and also in improving efficiency in agricultural production and revolutionizing the current agriculture. In order to understand the frontiers and hot fields in crop science, this paper reviews the progresses in the fields of cultivar improvement, gene cloning, genome editing in rice, corn, wheat, and other crops in 2016, and proposes the future highlights and hotspots in crop science.

crop science  /  variety improvement  /  research front in 2016