Genome engineering for crop improvement and future agriculture

C Gao - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Feeding the ever-growing population is a major challenge, especially in light of rapidly
changing climate conditions. Genome editing is set to revolutionize plant breeding and …

Gene pyramiding for sustainable crop improvement against biotic and abiotic stresses

R Dormatey, C Sun, K Ali, JA Coulter, Z Bi, J Bai - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sustainable agricultural production is endangered by several ecological factors, such as
drought, extreme temperatures, excessive salts, parasitic ailments, and insect pest …

Accelerated domestication of new crops: Yield is key

G Luo, J Najafi, PMP Correia, MDL Trinh… - Plant and Cell …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Sustainable agriculture in the future will depend on crops that are tolerant to biotic and
abiotic stresses, require minimal input of water and nutrients and can be cultivated with a …

Can the Wild Perennial, Rhizomatous Rice Species Oryza longistaminata be a Candidate for De Novo Domestication?

S Tong, M Ashikari, K Nagai, O Pedersen - Rice, 2023 - Springer
As climate change intensifies, the development of resilient rice that can tolerate abiotic
stresses is urgently needed. In nature, many wild plants have evolved a variety of …

Phenotypic evaluation of genetic variability and selection of yield contributing traits in chickpea recombinant inbred line population under high temperature stress

A Kushwah, D Bhatia, G Singh, I Singh… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2021 - Springer
Heat is a major abiotic stress that drastically reduces chickpea yield. This study aimed to
identify heat-responsive traits to sustain crop productivity by screening a recombinant inbred …

Identification of stable heat tolerance QTLs using inter-specific recombinant inbred line population derived from GPF 2 and ILWC 292

A Kushwah, D Bhatia, I Singh, M Thudi, G Singh… - PloS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Heat stress during reproductive stages has been leading to significant yield losses in
chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). With an aim of identifying the genomic regions or QTLs …

Genetic mapping of QTLs for drought tolerance in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)

A Kushwah, D Bhatia, R Barmukh, I Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chickpea yield is severely affected by drought stress, which is a complex quantitative trait
regulated by multiple small-effect genes. Identifying genomic regions associated with …

Molecular mapping of quantitative trait loci for ascochyta blight and botrytis grey mould resistance in an inter-specific cross in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) using …

A Kushwah, D Bhatia, U Rani, IS Yadav, I Singh… - Breeding …, 2021 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Ascochyta blight (AB) and botrytis grey mould (BGM) are the most devastating fungal
diseases of chickpea worldwide. The wild relative of chickpea, C. reticulatum acc. ILWC 292 …

Phenotypic evaluation of agronomic and root related traits for drought tolerance in recombinant inbred line population derived from a chickpea cultivar (C. arietinum L.) and its …

A Kushwah, D Bhatia, G Singh, I Singh, S Vij… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2022 - Springer
Drought is a major abiotic stress that drastically reduces chickpea yields. The present study
was aimed to identify drought-responsive traits in chickpea by screening a recombinant …

Advances in chickpea breeding and genomics for varietal development and trait improvement in India

A Kushwah, S Bindra, I Singh, GP Dixit… - … Plant Breeding, Volume …, 2020 - Springer
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is a cool season, self-pollinated and diploid legume crop
species having haploid genome size of 738 Mb. Due to increasing climatic variability …