Sanku, G and Rajasekaran, R and Boopathi, N M and Krishnamoorthy, I and Vetriventhan, M and Santhanakrishnan, V P (2026) Molecular approaches to decode climate resilient properties in millets. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology. ISSN 0971-7811
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Global warming and rising mean temperatures are believed to significantly impact agricultural production and yields as well as food sustainability. It is also acknowledged in scientific literature that the present rates of greenhouse gas emissions will drastically lower agricultural output. Cereal crops, viz., rice, wheat, and maize, are reportedly found to show high carbon equivalent emissions in contrast to the lower carbon footprint of underexplored crops. The potential of millets for fostering global food security is extremely promising due to the fact that their resilience against climate change and the growing need for nutrient-dense food and feed. Despite these, they remained underutilized and neglected crops over several decades. In the recent past, an upsurge in the accessibility of genetic resources in a broad spectrum of underutilized crops has streamlined the process of reliable characterization of germplasm and their relevance in crop improvement. The growing consequences of global warming and climate change opened avenues for genomics and genome modification approaches with the aim of sustaining the yield and productivity. Addressing food and nutritional security requires encompassing millets for farming and harnessing “omics” technological advancement to hunt down the features that make them climate-resilient while unravelling the molecular drivers behind these characteristics. This review focuses on emphasizing the molecular approaches targeted towards deciphering the gene function and their regulatory pathways underlying the characteristics concerning climate resilience, in addition to the comprehensive analysis of an array of genetic and genomic resources available, followed by their further integration into the breeding programmes.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Genebank |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Millets, Climate change, Genetic and genomic resources, And molecular approaches |
| Subjects: | Mandate crops > Millets Others > Genetics and Genomics Others > Climate Change |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2026 05:44 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2026 05:44 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/13556 |
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13562-0... |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | We thank BioRender (https://app.biorender.com) for creating the figures. |
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