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Moreover, due to narrow genetic foundation, serious varietal degradation, lack of breakthrough varieties, as well as long breeding cycle and low probability of gene polymerization, it is particularly important to realize the leapfrog development of sugarcane breeding by seizing the opportunity for the emerging Breeding 4.0, and making full use of modern biotechnology including but not limited to whole genome selection, transgene, gene editing, and synthetic biology, combined with information technology such as remote sensing and deep learning. In view of this, we focus on sugarcane breeding from the perspective of technology and methods, reviewing the main history, pointing out the current status and challenges, and providing a reasonable outlook on the prospects of smart breeding.</jats:p>","journal":"Frontiers in Plant Science","year":2024,"id":653576,"datarank":0.5926865577872142,"base_score":3.9512437185814275,"endowment":3.9512437185814275,"self_citation_contribution":0.5926865577872142,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5926865577872142,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":51,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1705318,"name":"Purui Liu","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1705319,"name":"Qibin Wu","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":149101,"name":"Shuzhen Zhang","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1705320,"name":"Peifang Zhao","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":320009,"name":"Yuebin Zhang","orcid":"0000-0001-8174-7189","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1705321,"name":"Youxiong Que","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1705317,"name":"Guilong Lu","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Sugarcane breeding: a fantastic past and promising future driven by technology and methods","abstract":"<jats:p>Sugarcane is the most important sugar and energy crop in the world. 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