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Developing drought-smart, ready-to-grow future crops
The plant genome, Vol.16(1), e20279
2023
PMID: 36366733
Abstract
Breeding crop plants with increased yield potential and improved tolerance to stressful environments is critical for global food security. Drought stress (DS) adversely affects agricultural productivity worldwide and is expected to rise in the coming years. Therefore, it is vital to understand the physiological, biochemical, molecular, and ecological mechanisms associated with DS. This review examines recent advances in plant responses to DS to expand our understanding of DS-associated mechanisms. Suboptimal water sources adversely affect crop growth and yields through physical impairments, physiological disturbances, biochemical modifications, and molecular adjustments. To control the devastating effect of DS in crop plants, it is important to understand its consequences, mechanisms, and the agronomic and genetic basis of DS for sustainable production. In addition to plant responses, we highlight several mitigation options such as omics approaches, transgenics breeding, genome editing, and biochemical to mechanical methods (foliar treatments, seed priming, and conventional agronomic practices). Further, we have also presented the scope of conventional and speed breeding platforms in helping to develop the drought-smart future crops. In short, we recommend incorporating several approaches, such as multi-omics, genome editing, speed breeding, and traditional mechanical strategies, to develop drought-smart cultivars to achieve the 'zero hunger' goal.
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- Title
- Developing drought-smart, ready-to-grow future crops
- Authors/Creators
- Ali Raza - Oil Crops Research InstituteMuhammad Salman Mubarik - Department of BiotechnologyRahat Sharif - Yangzhou UniversityMadiha Habib - Genomics (United Kingdom)Warda Jabeen - National University of Sciences and TechnologyChong Zhang - Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityHua Chen - Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityZhong-Hua Chen - Western Sydney UniversityKadambot H. M. Siddique - The University of Western AustraliaWeijian Zhuang - Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityRajeev K. Varshney - Murdoch University, Food Futures Institute
- Publication Details
- The plant genome, Vol.16(1), e20279
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 37
- Grant note
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Fujian Provincial Government U1705233 / National Science Foundation of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Australia-India Strategic Research Fund from Dept. of Biotechnology, Government of India Food Futures Institute, Murdoch Univ., Australia Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univ., Fuzhou, China Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univ.
- Identifiers
- 991005634370307891
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Authors.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Crop and Food Innovation; State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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