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Ideotypes are a popular concept for plant breeders, who designate as such the ideal combinations of traits in a particular genotype to reach a pre-set production objective within a given socio-economic context. The historical, ‘genetic’ view of ideotypes has been more recently extended to cover the design of plant genotypes for specific cropping systems (the ‘agronomic’ view), or even the ideal combination of parameters, identified from formal or simulation modeling, to a specific agronomic problem (the ‘modelling’ view). These different forms of ideotypes in turn lead to different strategies for breeding plants. This paper will briefly describe, analyse and discuss some applications of these ideotype views, using the specific case of architectural traits of plant and crop canopies to limit the epidemic development of pests and diseases in crops. It is not intended to be an exhaustive and objective review of the existing literature on plant ideotypes, but rather to express as an ‘opinion’ paper the views discussed and elaborated among participants to the EpiArch network.
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Most of the reflections that led to this paper were carried out within the EpiArch network, to which the financial support of the ‘Plant Health and the Environment’ and ‘Environment and Agronomy ‘divisions of INRA is gratefully acknowledged. The experimental and modeling work underlying it was largely supported by the ARCHIDEMIO project (ANR-08-STRA-04).
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Andrivon, D., Giorgetti, C., Baranger, A. et al. Defining and designing plant architectural ideotypes to control epidemics?. Eur J Plant Pathol 135, 611–617 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-012-0126-y
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