Kole, C and Muthamilarasan, M and Henry, R and Edwards, D and Sharma, R and Abberton, M and Batley, J and Bentley, A and Blakeney, M and Bryant, J and Cai, H and Cakir, M and Cseke, L J and Cockram, J and Oliveira, A C and Pace, C D and Dempewolf, H and Ellison, S and Gepts, P and Greenland, A and Hall, A and Hori, K and Hughes, S and Humphreys, M W and Iorizzo, M and Ismail, A M and Marshall, A and Mayes, S and Nguyen, H T and Ogbonnaya, F C and Ortiz, R and Paterson, A H and Simon, P W and Tohme, J and Tuberosa, R and Valliyodan, B and Varshney, R K and Wullschleger, S D and Yano, M and Prasad, M (2015) Application of genomics-assisted breeding for generation of climate resilient crops: Progress and prospects. Frontiers in Plant Science. ISSN 1664-462X
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Abstract
Climate change affects agricultural productivity worldwide. Increased prices of food commodities are the initial indication of drastic edible yield loss, which is expected to surge further due to global warming. This situation has compelled plant scientists to develop climate change-resilient crops, which can withstand broad-spectrum stresses such as drought, heat, cold, salinity, flood and submergence, and pests along with increased productivity. Genomics appears to be a promising tool for deciphering the stress responsiveness of crop species with adaptation traits or in wild relatives towards identifying underlying genes, alleles or quantitative trait loci. Molecular breeding approaches have been proven helpful in enhancing the stress adaptation of crop plants, and recent advancement in next-generation sequencing along with high-throughput sequencing and phenotyping platforms have transformed molecular breeding to genomics-assisted breeding (GAB). In view of this, the present review elaborates the progress and prospects of GAB in improving climate change resilience in crop plants towards circumventing global food insecurity.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | RP-Grain Legumes |
| CRP: | CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Climate Change; Crop Improvement; Stress Tolerance; Breeding; Genomics |
| Subjects: | Others > Genetics and Genomics |
| Depositing User: | Mr Ramesh K |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2015 05:40 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2018 08:31 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/8865 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00563 |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | UNSPECIFIED |
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