[HTML][HTML] Harnessing crop wild diversity for climate change adaptation

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Warming and drought are reducing global crop production with a potential to substantially
worsen global malnutrition. As with the green revolution in the last century, plant genetics …

[HTML][HTML] How could the use of crop wild relatives in breeding increase the adaptation of crops to marginal environments?

JP Renzi, CJ Coyne, J Berger, E von Wettberg… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Alongside the use of fertilizer and chemical control of weeds, pests, and diseases modern
breeding has been very successful in generating cultivars that have increased agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] Improved pea reference genome and pan-genome highlight genomic features and evolutionary characteristics

T Yang, R Liu, Y Luo, S Hu, D Wang, C Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Complete and accurate reference genomes and annotations provide fundamental resources
for functional genomics and crop breeding. Here we report a de novo assembly and …

Rewilding crops for climate resilience: economic analysis and de novo domestication strategies

A Razzaq, SH Wani, F Saleem, M Yu… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
To match predicted population growth, annual food production should be doubled by 2050.
This is not achievable by current agronomical and breeding practices, due to the impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Current perspectives on introgression breeding in food legumes

A Pratap, A Das, S Kumar, S Gupta - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Food legumes are important for defeating malnutrition and sustaining agri-food systems
globally. Breeding efforts in legume crops have been largely confined to the exploitation of …

[HTML][HTML] Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein and hairy roots: a perfect match for gene functional analysis and crop …

JM Alamillo, CM López, FJM Rivas, F Torralbo… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing is a powerful tool in functional analysis for crop
improvement.•The lack of efficient transformation protocols hinders CRISPR/Cas9 use in …

[HTML][HTML] Progenitor species hold untapped diversity for potential climate-responsive traits for use in wheat breeding and crop improvement

FJ Leigh, TIC Wright, RA Horsnell, S Dyer, AR Bentley - Heredity, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change will have numerous impacts on crop production worldwide necessitating a
broadening of the germplasm base required to source and incorporate novel traits. Major …

[HTML][HTML] Drought Stress in Lentil (Lens culinaris, Medik) and Approaches for Its Management

A Zeroual, A Baidani, O Idrissi - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
Lentil plays an important role for food and nutritional security. It is a sustainable source of
protein, zinc, iron, prebiotic carbohydrates, and diverse health-promoting nutrients. This crop …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic-Mediated Breeding Strategies for Global Warming in Chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.)

SK Jain, EJ Wettberg, SS Punia, AK Parihar… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Although chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) has high yield potential, its seed yield is often low
and unstable due to the impact of abiotic stresses, such as drought and heat. As a result of …

An overview of floral regulatory genes in annual and perennial plants

S Rehman, S Bahadur, X Wei - Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
The floral initiation in angiosperms is a complex process influenced by endogenous and
exogenous signals. With this approach, we aim to provide a comprehensive review to …