Crop wild relatives: A valuable source of tolerance to various abiotic stresses

A Kapazoglou, M Gerakari, E Lazaridi, K Kleftogianni… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global climate change is one of the major constraints limiting plant growth, production, and
sustainability worldwide. Moreover, breeding efforts in the past years have focused on …

Sustaining yield and nutritional quality of peanuts in harsh environments: Physiological and molecular basis of drought and heat stress tolerance

N Puppala, SN Nayak, A Sanz-Saez, C Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is significantly impacting agricultural production worldwide. Peanuts provide
food and nutritional security to millions of people across the globe because of its high …

The genome sequence of segmental allotetraploid peanut Arachis hypogaea

DJ Bertioli, J Jenkins, J Clevenger, O Dudchenko… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Like many other crops, the cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is of hybrid origin and
has a polyploid genome that contains essentially complete sets of chromosomes from two …

Unlocking the hidden variation from wild repository for accelerating genetic gain in legumes

G Singh, S Gudi, Amandeep, P Upadhyay… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The fluctuating climates, rising human population, and deteriorating arable lands
necessitate sustainable crops to fulfil global food requirements. In the countryside, legumes …

Breeding strategies to enhance drought tolerance in crops

S Rauf, JM Al-Khayri, M Zaharieva… - Advances in plant …, 2016 - Springer
Global climate change is expected to increase the occurrence and severity of drought
episodes due to increasing temperatures and evapotranspiration. Therefore, food security in …

Characterization of raffinose metabolism genes uncovers a wild Arachis galactinol synthase conferring tolerance to abiotic stresses

CC Vinson, APZ Mota, BN Porto, TN Oliveira… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Raffinose family oligosaccharides (RFOs) are implicated in plant regulatory mechanisms of
abiotic stresses tolerance and, despite their antinutritional proprieties in grain legumes, little …

Water: the most important 'molecular'component of water stress tolerance research

V Vadez, J Kholova, M Zaman-Allah… - Functional Plant …, 2013 - CSIRO Publishing
Water deficit is the main yield-limiting factor across the Asian and African semiarid tropics
and a basic consideration when developing crop cultivars for water-limited conditions is to …

Advances in “omics” approaches to tackle drought stress in grain legumes

UC Jha, A Bohra, H Nayyar - Plant Breeding, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Grain legumes being affordable sources of proteins, vitamins and essential micronutrients
are key to human nutrition worldwide. However, frequent drought episodes present serious …

Transcriptome Profiling of Wild Arachis from Water-Limited Environments Uncovers Drought Tolerance Candidate Genes

ACM Brasileiro, CV Morgante, ACG Araujo… - Plant Molecular Biology …, 2015 - Springer
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important legume cultivated mostly in drought-prone
areas where its productivity can be limited by water scarcity. The development of more …

A prospective review on selectable marker-free genome engineered rice: past, present and future scientific realm

R Singh, N Kaur, UP Praba, G Kaur, MJ Tanin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As a staple food crop, rice has gained mainstream attention in genome engineering for its
genetic improvement. Genome engineering technologies such as transgenic and genome …