Horticulturae,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
10(9), С. 913 - 913
Опубликована: Авг. 27, 2024
Husk
tomatoes
are
used
in
salsa
and
traditional
medicine
to
alleviate
illnesses.
Market
demand
requires
husk
tomato
varieties
with
improved
agronomic
physicochemical
health
benefits.
Mutagen
application
alters
plant
genomes,
creating
new
traits
genetic
diversity.
The
efficacy
of
EMS
(ethyl
methanesulfonate)
was
examined
for
morphology,
bioactive
compounds,
phytochemical
improvement.
Three
genotypes
representing
Physalis
philadelphica
ixocarpa
underwent
two
hours
1.4%
EMS.
In
addition
yield
yield-related
properties,
total
phenol,
antioxidant
activity,
chlorophyll
a
b
levels
leaves
fruits,
concentrations
Na,
Mg,
Ca,
Mn,
Fe,
Cu,
K
fruits
were
measured.
Genotype-dependent
morphological
changes
found.
mutants
C1T6
(85
cm)
C1T7
(87.60
shorter
than
Control
C1
(102
cm).
highest
5.80
g
C1T5;
produced
3.08.
mutant
C2T6
the
most
(5.99
g)
compared
its
control
(2.85
g).
Mutants
had
higher
leaf/fruit
chlorophyll.
C1T2
activity
(1.19
ng/µL).
C2T1
outperformed
C2
at
1.54
ng/µL
phenolic
content.
C3T2
Ca
content
(1822
µg/g),
while
C3
861.20
µg/g.
Mutations
altered
composition,
which
can
be
generate
nutritionally
superior
varieties.
Additionally,
scientists
will
able
study
advantageous
biochemical
traits,
enabling
extensive
research.
Furthermore,
serve
as
repository
progression
breeding
procedures.
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.
Agronomy,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
14(8), С. 1830 - 1830
Опубликована: Авг. 19, 2024
Medicinal
and
aromatic
plants
(MAPs)
are
well
known
for
their
valuable
secondary
metabolites
diverse
phytochemicals
responsible
a
plethora
of
medicinal
properties
such
as
antimicrobial,
antioxidant,
anti-inflammatory,
anticancerous,
analgesic
activities,
making
them
essential
various
industries.
Therefore,
this
significant
market
demand
has
led
to
the
need
improve
quality
quantity
thus
develop
high-quality
commercial
products.
In
context,
polyploidization
is
considered
sound
contemporary
approach
that
produces
new
genotypes,
leading
overexpression
genes
involved
in
biosynthesizing
crucial
metabolites.
Enhanced
natural
metabolite
production
increases
biological
activities
plant
extracts
along
with
enhanced
tolerance
against
abiotic
biotic
stresses
achieve
homogeneity.
This
improvisation
can
maximize
value
plants.
mini-review
aims
explore
importance
enhancing
activity
plants,
summarize
progress
synthetic
breeding
tool
MAP
species,
elucidate
how
technique
plays
an
important
role
improving
values.
strategy
could
significantly
advance
future
research
industrial
applications
by
inducing
superior
genotypes
genomic
complexity
traits
like
increased
biomass,
stress
tolerance,
novel
biochemical
pathways.
So,
it
be
concluded
vitro
effective
promoting
more
distinctive
immense
variety
pharmaceutical
purposes.
PLoS ONE,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
19(11), С. e0313335 - e0313335
Опубликована: Ноя. 8, 2024
The
Tomato
Brown
Rugose
Fruit
Virus
(ToBRFV)
is
a
pathogen
that
mostly
affects
plants
from
the
Solanaceae
family.
This
virus
severely
yield
of
tomato
(Solanum
lycopersicum
L.)
plants,
thus
creating
an
urgent
need
to
research
basis
resistance
manage
disease.
To
understand
molecular
resistance,
we
employed
omics-based
approaches
involving
leaf
ionomics
and
transcriptomics
help
us
decipher
interaction
between
elemental
nutritional
composition
investigate
its
effect
on
gene
expression
profile
upon
ToBRFV
infection
in
tomatoes.
Ionomics
was
used
accumulation
trace
elements
leaves,
showcasing
resistant
had
significantly
higher
concentrations
iron
(p-value
=
0.039)
nickel
0.042)
than
susceptible
ones.
By
correlating
these
findings
with
transcriptomics,
identified
some
key
genes
involved
homeostasis
abscisic
acid
pathways,
potentially
responsible
for
conferring
against
pathogen.
From
obtained
list
differentially
expressed
genes,
panel
mutation
discovered
three
important
genes-Solyc02g068590.3.1
(K+
transporter),
Solyc01g111890.3.1
(LRR),
Solyc02g061770.4.1
(Chitinase)
showing
persistent
missense
mutations.
We
ascertain
role
establish
their
association
plant
using
genotyping
assays
various
lines.
targeted
selection
genetic
determinants
can
further
enhance
breeding
crop
management
strategies.
