Linking environmental signals to plant metabolism: The combination of field trials and environment simulators

Abstract

Breeding crops with enhanced nutrients is one of the major goals of plant breeding. Notably, plants intensively produce various specialized plant metabolites (e.g., phenolic compounds and carotenoids) in response to diverse external stimuli and changing environmental conditions, which have been reported as health-promoting compounds with various health benefits (Dong and Lin, 2021). On the other hand, the varied growth environment and global climate change necessitates crops to have the qualities of good environmental adaptability (Eshed and Lippman, 2019).