Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 132(3), P. 555 - 557
Published: March 1, 2019
Language: Английский
Crop Science, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 61(2), P. 839 - 852
Published: Oct. 16, 2020
Abstract Plant breeders face multiple global challenges that affect food security, productivity, accessibility, and nutritional quality. One major challenge for plant is developing environmentally resilient crop cultivars in response to rapid shifts cultivation conditions resources due climate change. rely on different genetic resources, breeding tools, methods incorporate diversity into commercialized cultivars. Breeders use develop new with improved agronomics, such as higher yield, biotic abiotic stress tolerance, improve the quality of foods a growing world population. perform essential task strategic integration while preserving important economic traits individual crops relative maturity (maize, Zea mays L.), fruit type (tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.), (lettuce Lactuca sativa habitat (canola, Brassica napus L.) are highly specialized specific consumer preferences or market needs. This review provides an industry perspective how incorporated improvement by (a) using real‐life example highlight vast amount exists plants, (b) providing conceptual illustrate breeder faces incorporating diversity, (c) describing why it can decade more cultivars, even when advanced tools technologies used, (d) sharing factors consider applying various including genome editing, at stages breeding.
Language: Английский
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Nature Genetics, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 52(6), P. 565 - 571
Published: April 27, 2020
Language: Английский
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Frontiers in Genetics, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 12
Published: Feb. 24, 2021
Although hybrid crop varieties are among the most popular agricultural innovations, rationale for breeding is sometimes misunderstood. Hybrid slower and more resource-intensive than inbred breeding, but it allows systematic improvement of a population by recurrent selection exploitation heterosis simultaneously. Inbred parental lines can identically reproduce both themselves their F
Language: Английский
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Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 134(6), P. 1729 - 1752
Published: Feb. 16, 2021
Abstract Key message Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have led to the increase in genetic gains, deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars for stress-prone environments tropics. Maize ( Zea mays L.) plays a critical role ensuring food nutritional security, livelihoods millions resource-constrained smallholders. However, yields tropical rainfed are now increasingly vulnerable various climate-induced stresses, especially drought, heat, waterlogging, salinity, cold, diseases, insect pests, which often come combinations severely impact crops. The International Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), partnership with several private institutions, has been intensively engaged over last four decades germplasm tolerance key abiotic biotic using an extensive managed stress screening network on-farm testing system. This successful development array stress-tolerant across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America. Further increasing gains programs demands judicious integration doubled haploidy, high-throughput precise phenotyping, genomics-assisted breeding, data management, more effective decision support tools. Multi-institutional efforts, public–private alliances, ensure that improved varieties effectively reach climate-vulnerable farming communities tropics, including accelerated replacement old/obsolete varieties.
Language: Английский
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BMC Plant Biology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 21(1)
Published: Aug. 20, 2021
Abstract Research in the past decade has demonstrated that a single reference genome is not representative of species’ diversity. MaizeGDB introduces pan-genomic approach to hosting genomic data, leveraging large number diverse maize genomes and their associated datasets quickly efficiently connect genomes, gene models, expression, epigenome, sequence variation, structural transposable elements, diversity data across so researchers can easily track functional differences locus its orthologs maize. We believe our framework unique provides template for any database poised host large-scale data.
Language: Английский
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Nitrogen, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(1), P. 106 - 143
Published: Feb. 5, 2024
Nitrogen (N) is the most limiting nutrient for production of vegetable crops, but anthropogenic sources pose risks due to its transformation into several reactive forms and movement throughout environment. The bulk N research date improve Use Efficiency (NUE) has followed a reductionist factorial approach focused on synthetic application rates crop growth response, under monocultures. increased adoption diversified cropping systems, organic sources, alternative management practices makes it more challenging unravel form transformation, movement, uptake dynamics, in time space. Here, based selected review recent literature, we propose holistic highlight key variables as well multilevel system, genetic, environmental, ecological, socioeconomic interactions cycle NUE. best strategies NUE include both inorganic rate calibration studies, germplasm selection, rotations, identification x interactions, pest water management. Agroecological that may vegetational diversification space, integrated crop–livestock conservation tillage, amendment inputs, legume-based landscape
Language: Английский
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Genome biology, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 21(1)
Published: July 6, 2020
Abstract Background Gene expression is a key determinant of cellular response. Natural variation in gene bridges genetic to phenotypic alteration. Identification the regulatory variants controlling response drought, major environmental threat crop production worldwide, great value for drought-tolerant identification. Results A total 627 RNA-seq analyses are performed 224 maize accessions which represent wide diversity under three water regimes; 73,573 eQTLs detected about 30,000 expressing genes with high-density genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms, reflecting comprehensive and dynamic architecture drought. The constitutively or drought-dynamically unraveled. Focusing on resolved encoding transcription factors, drought-responsive network hierarchy factors their target built. Moreover, 97 prioritized associate drought tolerance due variations through Mendelian randomization analysis. One candidate genes, Abscisic acid 8′-hydroxylase , verified play negative role plant tolerance. Conclusions This study unravels effects dynamics allows us better understand distal proximal plasticity. drought-associated may serve as direct targets functional investigation allelic mining.
Language: Английский
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 21(16), P. 5665 - 5665
Published: Aug. 7, 2020
Genome editing is a relevant, versatile, and preferred tool for crop improvement, as well functional genomics. In this review, we summarize the advances in gene-editing techniques, such zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like (TAL) effector (TALENs), clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) associated with Cas9 Cpf1 proteins. These tools support great opportunities future development of plant science rapid remodeling crops. Furthermore, discuss brief history each provide their comparison different applications. Among various genome-editing tools, CRISPR has become most popular; hence, it discussed greatest detail. helped clarify genomic structure its role plants: For example, transcriptional control Cpf1, genetic locus monitoring, mechanism promoter activity, alteration detection epigenetic behavior between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) investigated based on traits related genome-wide studies. The present review describes how CRISPR/Cas9 systems can play valuable characterization rearrangement gene functions, improvement important field crops precision. addition, speed strategy gene-family members was introduced to accelerate applications improvement. this, technology advantage that particularly holds scientist’s mind, allows genome multiple biological systems.
Language: Английский
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Nature Plants, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 8(7), P. 750 - 763
Published: July 18, 2022
Language: Английский
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Plant Pathology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 70(5), P. 1032 - 1046
Published: Feb. 27, 2021
Abstract Maize productivity is threatened by global climate change. Climate change scenarios suggest that north‐western (NW) Europe will get warmer and drier during the main crop‐growing period. In general, more northerly regions benefit, whereas southerly suffer suboptimal rain‐fed farming conditions. these latter in particular, resulting probable lower realized on‐farm maize grain biomass yields must be safeguarded. Breeding for resistance against already existing emerging diseases insect pests one component to achieve yield stability across years. Durable multiple‐disease become especially crucial. Herein, we focus on disease breeding approaches maize, related northern corn leaf blight Fusarium ear rots, although virus bacterial important as well. Continuous adjustments of strategies required. Insect pest improved considerably, a world insects thrive, probably causing detrimental direct (feeding, sucking, etc.) indirect (vectors pathogens, feeding wounds creating gateways many passive transport inoculum plants) effects. Four case studies are prevalent NW or may expected near future covered this review. cultivars need combine both durable multiple‐insect resistance, implementation different effective resources programmes challenging, particularly if trade‐offs among goals appear.
Language: Английский
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