Molecular breeding and drought tolerance in chickpea

R Asati, MK Tripathi, S Tiwari, RK Yadav, N Tripathi - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cicer arietinum L. is the third greatest widely planted imperative pulse crop worldwide, and it
belongs to the Leguminosae family. Drought is the utmost common abiotic factor on plants …

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 …

Modern strategies to assess and breed forest tree adaptation to changing climate

AJ Cortés, M Restrepo-Montoya… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Studying the genetics of adaptation to new environments in ecologically and industrially
important tree species is currently a major research line in the fields of plant science and …

Legume crops phylogeny and genetic diversity for science and breeding

P Smýkal, CJ Coyne, MJ Ambrose… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Economically, legumes (Fabaceae) represent the second most important family of crop
plants after the grass family, Poaceae. Grain legumes account for 27% of world crop …

Response of different genotypes of faba bean plant to drought stress

MH Siddiqui, MY Al-Khaishany, MA Al-Qutami… - International Journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Drought stress is one of the major abiotic stresses that are a threat to crop production
worldwide. Drought stress impairs the plants growth and yield. Therefore, the aim of the …

Last-Generation Genome–Environment Associations Reveal the Genetic Basis of Heat Tolerance in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

F López-Hernández, AJ Cortés - Frontiers in Genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Genome–environment associations (GEAs) are a powerful strategy for the study of adaptive
traits in wild plant populations, yet they still lack behind in the use of modern statistical …

Predicting thermal adaptation by looking into populations' genomic past

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Molecular evolution offers an insightful theory to interpret the genomic consequences of
thermal adaptation to previous events of climate change beyond range shifts. However …

Multi-Environment Yield Components in Advanced Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) × Tepary Bean (P. acutifolius A. Gray) Interspecific Lines for Heat and …

E Burbano-Erazo, RI León-Pacheco… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Heat and drought are major stresses that significantly reduce seed yield of the common
bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). In turn, this affects the profitability of the crop in climatic …

Genome–environment associations, an innovative tool for studying heritable evolutionary adaptation in orphan crops and wild relatives

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández, MW Blair - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Leveraging innovative tools to speed up prebreeding and discovery of genotypic sources of
adaptation from landraces, crop wild relatives, and orphan crops is a key prerequisite to …

Genotyping by sequencing and genome–environment associations in wild common bean predict widespread divergent adaptation to drought

AJ Cortés, MW Blair - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drought will reduce global crop production by> 10% in 2050 substantially worsening global
malnutrition. Breeding for resistance to drought will require accessing crop genetic diversity …