Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Enhancing crop diversity for food security in the face of climate uncertainty

A Zsögön, LEP Peres, Y Xiao, J Yan… - The plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

Plant pan-genomics and its applications

J Shi, Z Tian, J Lai, X Huang - Molecular Plant, 2023 - cell.com
Plant genomes are so highly diverse that a substantial proportion of genomic sequences are
not shared among individuals. The variable DNA sequences, along with the conserved core …

Enhancing essential grains yield for sustainable food security and bio-safe agriculture through latest innovative approaches

G Albahri, AA Alyamani, A Badran, A Hijazi, M Nasser… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
A key concern in agriculture is how to feed the expanding population and safeguard the
environment from the ill effects of climate change. To feed a growing global population, food …

The next era of crop domestication starts now

AS Krug, E BM Drummond… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Current food systems are challenged by relying on a few input-intensive, staple crops. The
prioritization of yield and the loss of diversity during the recent history of domestication has …

From Green Super Rice to green agriculture: Reaping the promise of functional genomics research

S Yu, J Ali, S Zhou, G Ren, H Xie, J Xu, X Yu, F Zhou… - Molecular Plant, 2022 - cell.com
Producing sufficient food with finite resources to feed the growing global population while
having a smaller impact on the environment has always been a great challenge. Here, we …

Technology-enabled great leap in deciphering plant genomes

L Xie, X Gong, K Yang, Y Huang, S Zhang, L Shen… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genomes provide essential and vital basic resources for studying many aspects of
plant biology and applications (for example, breeding). From 2000 to 2020, 1,144 genomes …

Systems biology for crop improvement

LT Pazhamala, H Kudapa, W Weckwerth… - The plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, generation of large‐scale data from genome, transcriptome, proteome,
metabolome, epigenome, and others, has become routine in several plant species. Most of …

Biotechnological advances to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops

MA Villalobos-López, A Arroyo-Becerra… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The major challenges that agriculture is facing in the twenty-first century are increasing
droughts, water scarcity, flooding, poorer soils, and extreme temperatures due to climate …

The genomics of linkage drag in inbred lines of sunflower

K Huang, M Jahani, J Gouzy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Crop wild relatives represent valuable sources of alleles for crop improvement, including
adaptation to climate change and emerging diseases. However, introgressions from wild …