Trehalose induced drought tolerance in plants: physiological and molecular responses DOI Creative Commons

Jinhua Shao,

Weixiong Wu,

Fahd Rasul

et al.

Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 50(1), P. 12584 - 12584

Published: Feb. 9, 2022

Drought stress is significant abiotic that limits crop growth and productivity across the globe. The intensity of drought continuously rises due to rapid climate change. Drought-induced alterations in physiological bio-chemical processes by generating membrane dis-stability, oxidative stress, nutritional imbalance leading substantial reduction productivity. Plants accumulate various osmolytes protect themselves from stresses' harmful effects. Trehalose (Tre) a non-reducing sugar found multiple microbes ranging bacteria yeast plants it possesses an excellent ability improve tolerance. appreciably enhanced plant growth, counter induced damages maintaining cellular membranes, water relations, stomatal regulation, photosynthetic activities, nutrient uptake, osmolyte accumulation, activating proteins detoxifying reactive oxygen species (ROS) strengthening anti-oxidant system. Therefore, essential understand mechanism exogenous endogenous Tre mitigating drought-induced identify potential research questions must be answered future. better appraise benefits tolerance this review, we discussed diverse molecular mechanisms regulated under stress. We have complete updated picture on topic orientate future directions topic.

Language: Английский

The Future of Food DOI Creative Commons
Charis M. Galanakis

Foods, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(4), P. 506 - 506

Published: Feb. 6, 2024

The global food systems face significant challenges driven by population growth, climate change, geopolitical conflicts, crises, and evolving consumer preferences. Intending to address these challenges, optimizing production, adopting sustainable practices, developing technological advancements are essential while ensuring the safety public acceptance of innovations. This review explores complex aspects future food, encompassing security, climate-resilient digitalized supply chain, alternative protein sources, processing, technology, impact biotechnology, cultural diversity culinary trends, health personalized nutrition, production within circular bioeconomy. article offers a holistic perspective on industry characterized innovation, adaptability, shared commitment system resilience. Achieving sustainable, nutritious, environmentally friendly in involves comprehensive changes various including innovative farming processing technologies, Industry 4.0 applications, as well approaches that redefine how we consume food.

Language: Английский

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Artificial intelligence in plant breeding DOI Creative Commons
Muhammad Amjad Farooq, Shang Gao, Muhammad Adeel Hassan

et al.

Trends in Genetics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 40(10), P. 891 - 908

Published: Aug. 7, 2024

Harnessing cutting-edge technologies to enhance crop productivity is a pivotal goal in modern plant breeding. Artificial intelligence (AI) renowned for its prowess big data analysis and pattern recognition, revolutionizing numerous scientific domains including We explore the wider potential of AI tools various facets breeding, collection, unlocking genetic diversity within genebanks, bridging genotype–phenotype gap facilitate This will enable development cultivars tailored projected future environments. Moreover, also hold promise refining traits by improving precision gene-editing systems predicting effects gene variants on phenotypes. Leveraging AI-enabled breeding can augment efficiency programs holds optimizing cropping at grassroots level. entails identifying optimal inter-cropping crop-rotation models agricultural sustainability field.

Language: Английский

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Melatonin-Induced Protection Against Plant Abiotic Stress: Mechanisms and Prospects DOI Creative Commons
Muhammad Umair Hassan, Athar Mahmood, Masood Iqbal Awan

et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: June 9, 2022

Global warming in this century increases incidences of various abiotic stresses restricting plant growth and productivity posing a severe threat to global food production security. The produces different osmolytes hormones combat the harmful effects these stresses. Melatonin (MT) is hormone that possesses excellent properties improve performance under It associated with improved physiological molecular processes linked seed germination, development, photosynthesis, carbon fixation, defence against other In parallel, MT also increased accumulation multiple osmolytes, sugars endogenous (auxin, gibberellic acid, cytokinins) mediate resistance stress. Stress condition plants often reactive oxygen species. has antioxidant substantially scavenges species by increasing activity enzymatic non-enzymatic antioxidants stress conditions. Moreover, upregulation stress-responsive enzyme genes makes it an stress-inducing molecule. However, produced not sufficient induce tolerance. Therefore, development transgenic biosynthesis could be promising approach enhancing This review, therefore, focuses on possible role induction plants. We further discussed critical as potential for improving addition, we addressed shed light future research directions. review would help readers learn more about changing environment provide new suggestions how knowledge used develop

Language: Английский

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Genome Editing for Sustainable Crop Improvement and Mitigation of Biotic and Abiotic Stresses DOI Creative Commons
Mohd Fadhli Hamdan,

Chou Khai Soong Karlson,

Ee Yang Teoh

et al.

Plants, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 11(19), P. 2625 - 2625

Published: Oct. 6, 2022

Climate change poses a serious threat to global agricultural activity and food production. Plant genome editing technologies have been widely used develop crop varieties with superior qualities or can tolerate adverse environmental conditions. Unlike conventional breeding techniques (e.g., selective mutation breeding), modern tools offer more targeted specific alterations of the plant could significantly speed up progress developing crops desired traits, such as higher yield and/or stronger resilience changing environment. In this review, we discuss current development future applications in mitigating impacts biotic abiotic stresses on agriculture. We focus specifically CRISPR/Cas system, which has center attention last few years revolutionary genome-editing tool various species. also conducted bibliographic analysis CRISPR-related papers published from 2012 2021 (10 years) identify trends potential CRISPR/Cas-related research. addition, review article outlines shortcomings challenges employing agriculture notes prospective. believe combining innovative would be key optimizing improvement beyond limitations traditional practices.

Language: Английский

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Green Revolution to Gene Revolution: Technological Advances in Agriculture to Feed the World DOI Creative Commons
Mohd Fadhli Hamdan, Siti Nurfadhlina Mohd Noor, Nazrin Abd-Aziz

et al.

Plants, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 11(10), P. 1297 - 1297

Published: May 12, 2022

Technological applications in agriculture have evolved substantially to increase crop yields and quality meet global food demand. Conventional techniques, such as seed saving, selective breeding, mutation breeding (variation breeding), dramatically increased production, especially during the 'Green Revolution' 1990s. However, newer issues, limited arable lands, climate change, ever-increasing demand, pose challenges agricultural production threaten security. In following 'Gene era, rapid innovations biotechnology field provide alternative strategies further improve yield, quality, resilience towards biotic abiotic stresses. These include introduction of DNA recombinant technology genome editing transcription activator-like effector (TALEN), zinc-finger nucleases (ZFN), clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR associated (CRISPR/Cas) systems. acceptance future these modern tools rely on regulatory frameworks governing their development various countries. Herein, we examine evolution technological agriculture, focusing motivations for introduction, technical challenges, possible benefits concerns, genetically engineered product production.

Language: Английский

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Trehalose: a promising osmo-protectant against salinity stress—physiological and molecular mechanisms and future prospective DOI
Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Umair Hassan,

Muhammad Umer Chattha

et al.

Molecular Biology Reports, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 49(12), P. 11255 - 11271

Published: July 8, 2022

Language: Английский

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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) Biology and Biotechnology: From Domestication to Biofortification and Biopharming DOI Creative Commons
Bhupendra Koul, Komal Sharma,

Vrinda Sehgal

et al.

Plants, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 11(21), P. 2926 - 2926

Published: Oct. 30, 2022

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.), the world's second most consumed legume crop, is cultivated in more than 50 countries around world. It a boon for diabetics and an excellent source of important nutrients such as vitamins A, C, E, K, B1-B3, B5, B6, B9 minerals (Fe, Zn, Mg Ca) which all have beneficial effects on human health. By 2050, world population can cross 9 billion, order to feed teaming millions, chickpea production should also be increased, it healthy alternative wheat flour diabetics. Moreover, that crucial food, nutrition, health security livelihood small-scale farmers with poor resources, developing countries. Although marvelous improvement has been made development biotic abiotic stress-resistant varieties, still there are many lacunae, fulfill that, incorporation genomic technologies breeding (genomics-assisted breeding, high-throughput precise-phenotyping implementation novel strategies) will facilitate researchers high yielding, climate resilient, water use efficient, salt-tolerant, insect/pathogen resistant acceptable farmers, consumers, industries. This review focuses origin distribution, nutritional profile, studies, recent updates crop strategies combating stresses chickpea.

Language: Английский

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The Exploitation of Orphan Legumes for Food, Income, and Nutrition Security in Sub-Saharan Africa DOI Creative Commons
Jacob O. Popoola, Oluwadurotimi Samuel Aworunse, Omena Bernard Ojuederie

et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: May 17, 2022

Poverty, food, and nutrition insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have become major concerns recent times. The effects of climate change, drought, unpredictable rainfall patterns threaten food production sustainable agriculture. More so, insurgency, youth restiveness, politico-economic instability amidst a burgeoning population requiring sufficient healthy diet remain front-burner issues the region. Overdependence on only few staple crops is increasingly promoting near extinction many crops, especially orphan legumes, which possess immense potentials as protein nutritional security crops. are declining yield partly to their inability adapt continuously changing climatic conditions. Remarkably, legumes climate-smart with enormous agronomic features foster livelihood. Research efforts these not attained reasonable comparative status most commercial Though research organizations scientists made promote improvement utilization there still more be done. These legumes' vast genetic resources economic utility grossly under-exploited, but values promising impacts immeasurable. Given United Nations development goals (SDGs) zero hunger, improved nutrition, health, agriculture, need introduce into systems SSA other poverty-prone regions world now compelling than ever. This review unveils inherent needing focus for exploitation viz-a-viz cultivation, commercialization, social acceptance. this article discusses some nutraceutical global adaptability, modern plant breeding strategies that could deployed develop superior phenotypes enrich landraces. Advanced omics technologies, speed breeding, well application genome editing techniques, significantly enhance useful underutilized legumes. Efforts regard challenges approaches were also discussed.

Language: Английский

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CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful tool for precise genome editing of legume crops: a review DOI
Adnan Rasheed, Aminah A. Barqawi, Athar Mahmood

et al.

Molecular Biology Reports, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 49(6), P. 5595 - 5609

Published: May 18, 2022

Language: Английский

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Putting CRISPR-Cas system in action: a golden window for efficient and precise genome editing for crop improvement DOI Creative Commons

Arooj Tariq,

Muntazir Mushtaq,

Huwaida Yaqoob

et al.

GM crops & food, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14(1), P. 1 - 27

Published: June 8, 2023

The daunting task of feeding an ever-growing population is immense challenge for the contemporary scientific community, especially in view rapidly changing climate throughout world. Amidst these threatening crises, we witness rapid development genome editing (GE) technologies, revolutionizing field applied genomics and molecular breeding. Various GE tools have been developed during last two decades, but CRISPR/Cas system has most recently made a significant impact on crop improvement. major breakthroughs this versatile toolbox are genomic modifications like single base-substitutions, multiplex GE, gene regulation, screening mutagenesis, enhancing breeding wild plants. Previously, was used to modify genes related traits such as biotic/abiotic resistance/tolerance, post-harvest traits, nutritional address self-incompatibility analysis-related challenges. In present review, demonstrated functional dynamics CRISPR-based its applicability targeting accomplish novel crops. compiled knowledge will provide solid foundation highlighting primary source applying crops, achieve food security.

Language: Английский

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