Developing future heat‑resilient vegetable crops

Saeed, F and Chaudhry, U K and Raza, A and Charagh, S and Bakhsh, A and Bohra, A and Ali, S and Chitikineni, A and Saeed, Y and Visser, R G F and Siddique, K H M and Varshney, R K (2023) Developing future heat‑resilient vegetable crops. Functional & Integrative Genomics, 23. pp. 1-23. ISSN 1438-7948

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Abstract

Climate change seriously impacts global agriculture, with rising temperatures directly affecting the yield. Vegetables are an essential part of daily human consumption and thus have importance among all agricultural crops. The human population is increasing daily, so there is a need for alternative ways which can be helpful in maximizing the harvestable yield of vegetables. The increase in temperature directly affects the plants’ biochemical and molecular processes; having a significant impact on quality and yield. Breeding for climate-resilient crops with good yields takes a long time and lots of breeding efforts. However, with the advent of new omics technologies, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, the efficiency and efficacy of unearthing information on pathways associated with high-temperature stress resilience has improved in many of the vegetable crops. Besides omics, the use of genomics-assisted breeding and new breeding approaches such as gene editing and speed breeding allow creation of modern vegetable cultivars that are more resilient to high temperatures. Collectively, these approaches will shorten the time to create and release novel vegetable varieties to meet growing demands for productivity and quality. This review discusses the effects of heat stress on vegetables and highlights recent research with a focus on how omics and genome editing can produce temperature-resilient vegetables more efficiently and faster.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Abiotic stress, Biotechnology, Climate change, Heat stress, GWAS, Genome editing, QTL mapping
Subjects:	Others > Abiotic Stress Others > Biotechnology Others > Climate Change
Depositing User:	Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2023 03:52
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2023 03:52
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12282
Official URL:	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10142-0...
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	We are thankful to the researchers whose contributions have been cited in this review, which have helped us prepare this review paper. RKV is thankful to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (Tropical Legumes III project: INV008442/OPP1114827) and Australia- India Strategic Research Fund from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, for supporting this work in part.
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