Sorghum starch review: Structural properties, interactions with proteins and polyphenols, and modification of physicochemical properties

Food Chemistry, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 463, С. 139810 - 139810

Опубликована: Май 25, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Genome editing in Sub-Saharan Africa: a game-changing strategy for climate change mitigation and sustainable agriculture

GM crops & food, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 15(1), С. 279 - 302

Опубликована: Окт. 31, 2024

Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector faces a multifaceted challenge due to climate change consisting of high temperatures, changing precipitation trends, alongside intensified pest and disease outbreaks. Conventional plant breeding methods have historically contributed yield gains in Africa, the intensifying demand for food security outpaces these improvements confluence factors, including rising urbanization, improved living standards, population growth. To address escalating demands amidst growth, paradigm shift toward more sustainable innovative crop improvement strategies is imperative. Genome editing technologies offer promising avenue achieving sustained increases while bolstering resilience against biotic abiotic stresses associated with change. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-associated protein (CRISPR/Cas) unique its ubiquity, efficacy, precision, making it pivotal tool African improvement. This review highlights challenges explores prospect gene secure region's future foods.

Язык: Английский

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Advances in Sorghum Improvement for Climate Resilience in the Global Arid and Semi-Arid Tropics: A Review

Agronomy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(12), С. 3025 - 3025

Опубликована: Дек. 19, 2024

Sorghum is a climate-resilient crop which has been cultivated as staple food in the semi-arid areas of Africa and Asia for nutrition security. However, current climate change increasingly affecting sorghum performance, especially at flowering stage when water availability critical grain filling, thus lowering yield. The development climate-resilient, biotic abiotic stress-tolerant, market-preferred, nutrient-dense varieties offers potentially cost-effective environmentally sustainable strategy adapting to change. Some common technologies improvement include mass selection, single seed descent, pure line marker-assisted facilitated by backcrossing genotyping using molecular markers. In addition, recent advancements including new machine learning algorithms, gene editing, genomic rapid generation advancement, recycling elite material, along with high-throughput phenotyping tools such drone- satellite-based images other speed-breeding techniques, have increased precision, speed, accuracy variety development. addition these modern breeding technologies, enhancing genetic diversity incorporate various resilience traits, against heat drought stress, into pools critical. This review covers potential crop, explores sorghum, discusses challenges facing breeding, highlights addresses perceptions farmers on production under conditions.

Язык: Английский

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African Cultivated, Wild and Weedy Rice (Oryza spp.): Anticipating Further Genomic Studies

Biology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(9), С. 697 - 697

Опубликована: Сен. 5, 2024

Rice is a staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, and it mostly produced by Asian cultivars of

Язык: Английский

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Abiotic Stress in Cotton: Insights into Plant Responses and Biotechnological Solutions

Agriculture, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(9), С. 1638 - 1638

Опубликована: Сен. 19, 2024

Climate change has rapidly increased incidences of frequent extreme abiotic stresses, such as heat, drought, salinity, and waterlogging. Each these stressors negatively affects the cotton crop (Gossypium spp.) results in significant yield decreases. Every stressful event causes specific changes metabolism physiology plants, which are linked to complex molecular alterations. Understanding mechanisms that regulate a plant’s response stress is essential developing stress-resistant varieties can withstand various factors. Gene expressions multiple stresses have been studied mapped. These genes include ion transporters heat shock proteins, vital allowing adaptive responses. approaches showed ability employ advanced genome sequencing multi-omics techniques identify dynamic gene expression patterns elucidate intricate regulatory networks. Using genetic variation combination with techniques, it would be possible generate stress-resilient enable sustainable output face stresses. Here, we reviewed effects major on heavy metals, We also examine vast network genes, stress-sensitive signaling pathways help tolerate stress.

Язык: Английский

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Genome editing in Latin America: research achievements and regulatory evolution

Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC), Год журнала: 2024, Номер 159(3)

Опубликована: Ноя. 18, 2024

Язык: Английский

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The era of genome editing: current updates and the status of food and nutrition security

Frontiers in Sustainability, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5

Опубликована: Авг. 13, 2024

Food security is the situation in which all people around globe, circumstances must maintain constant physical and financial access to adequate nutritious, clean, safe food. This why food regarded as a major global issue. Domestically internationally, many factors affect production quality; these include environmental climate change conditions, disasters, emerging new diseases, political issues, shifts economy. Additionally, rapid population growth necessitates adjustments crop production. The current agricultural strategies negatively soil fertility cause defects such desertification, deforestation, increased salinity. high use of chemical fertilizers pesticides affects human health numerous strategic crops, including rice, maize, soybeans, wheat, was reduced due aforementioned factors. hunger index increased, millions were placed insecurity red zone. Governments societies attempted address problem by creating one: higher yield low-quality main can give rise hidden hunger, serious issue that violates people’s rights healthy nutritious diet inevitably causes insecurity. In an attempt end Green Revolution produced high-yielding varieties crops; however, this came at expense massive amounts pesticides, fertilizers, other activities practices ignored negative effects on environment nutritional value. Yet, billions worldwide suffer from iron, zinc, iodine, vitamin A deficiency, making malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies severe widespread developing nations. most common condition affecting poor rural populations, especially those low-income countries, iron zinc deficiency. To decrease close gap between consumption, there need increase productivity. Here we discussed status malnutrition where research efforts developments enhance quality for crops with help genome editing tools applications sustainable

Язык: Английский

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Biological resources and rights of farmers

African Journal of Biological Sciences, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 6(12), С. 3014 - 3037

Опубликована: Июль 5, 2024

In the intricate web of intellectual property (IP) law, biological resources and rights farmers are intertwined threads. Understanding how these resources, encompassing everything from plants animals to microorganisms, protected utilized within legal framework is crucial for ensuring both environmental sustainability equitable benefits farmers. This research paper delves into diverse landscape analysing their classification coverage under various IP regimes. By exploring legalities surrounding access utilization we aim illuminate potential that accrue Through concrete examples, will showcase framework, when effectively implemented, can empower share in economic gains generated use knowledge resources. Ultimately, this seeks contribute a fosters innovation agriculture while safeguarding livelihoods those who steward our heritage –

Язык: Английский

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Factors Affecting Production in Agricultural Projects in the Nile River State; A Documented Analytical Review for the Winter Season 2018/2019

Journal of the Arabian Peninsula Center for Educational and Humanity Researches, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 3(22), С. 156 - 180

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2024

The study aimed to analyze the factors influencing agricultural production in projects River Nile State through a documentary analytical review of winter season 2018/2019. descriptive method was adopted, utilizing document and official report analysis related during season. population encompassed all State, with purposive sample selected from reports statistics projects, addition data relevant government bodies for 2018/2019 due its availability. Documents were analyzed using statistical tools comparative methods assess various affecting production. results revealed that features diverse range including small large-scale such as individual, cooperative, investment, projects. emphasized shifting modern irrigation systems could enhance water efficiency productivity. Additionally, economic social significantly impact adoption sustainable practices, improving environmental health farm profitability. marketing products identified key factor boosting also highlighted challenges climate change, high costs irrigation, seeds, fertilizers, along heavy reliance on foreign labor. A lack sufficient funding major barrier Based findings, researchers recommended conditions state, transitioning traditional technologies, expanding arable land. Training programs raise awareness practices suggested, proposals future studies.///هدفت الدراسة إلى تحليل العوامل المؤثرة في الإنتاج الزراعي بالمشاريع الزراعية ولاية نهر النيل؛ مراجعة تحليلية وثائقية للموسم الشتوي 2018/2019، باعتماد المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، واستخدام الوثائق والتقارير الرسمية المتعلقة بالإنتاج خلال الموسم، وشمل مجتمع كافة المشاريع بولاية النيل، وتم اختيار عينة قصدية تمثلت تقارير وإحصائيات الزراعية، إضافة بيانات من الجهات الحكومية المختصة (2018/2019)، وذلك لتوفرها، حيث تم الرسمية، باستخدام أدوات التحليل الإحصائي والمقارنة لمختلف الزراعي، وأظهرت نتائج أن النيل تتميز بتنوع بين الصغيرة والكبيرة، بما ذلك الفردية والتعاونية والاستثمارية والحكومية، وأن التحول نظم الري الحديثة يمكن يزيد كفاءة استخدام المياه والإنتاجية، كما أكدت على تأثير الاقتصادية والاجتماعية اعتماد الممارسات المستدامة، تسهم تحسين صحة البيئة وزيادة ربحية المزارع. وبيّنت تسويق المنتجات يعد عاملاً رئيسيًا لتفعيل الزراعي. يُعد ضروريًا لزيادة الموارد المائية النادرة، بينت النتائج وجود تحديات تواجه الولاية، أبرزها تغير المناخ والتكاليف العالية للري والبذور والأسمدة، مع الاعتماد الكبير العمالة الأجنبية، نقص التمويل يشكل عائقًا كبيرًا أمام الإنتاجية، بناء أوصى الباحثون بتحسين الظروف والتحول أنظمة التقليدية التقنيات الحديثة، واستصلاح المزيد الأراضي الإنتاج، تطوير برامج تدريبية لرفع الوعي بالممارسات المستدامة المزارعين، تقديم مقترحات بدراسات مستقبلية الموضوع.

Язык: Английский

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