miRNAs for crop improvement

Ali Raza; Sidra Charagh; Benjamin Karikari; Rahat Sharif; Vivek Yadav; Muhammad Salman Mubarik; Madiha Habib; Yuhui Zhuang; Chong Zhang; Hua Chen; Rajeev K. Varshney; Weijian Zhuang

doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.107857

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miRNAs for crop improvement

Ali Raza, Sidra Charagh, Benjamin Karikari, Rahat Sharif, Vivek Yadav, Muhammad Salman Mubarik, Madiha Habib, Yuhui Zhuang, Chong Zhang, Hua Chen, …

Plant physiology and biochemistry, Vol.201, 107857

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.107857

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Abstract

Climate change

Food safety

Genetic engineering

microRNA

Post-transcriptional changes

Sustainable agriculture

Climate change significantly impacts crop production by inducing several abiotic and biotic stresses. The increasing world population, and their food and industrial demands require focused efforts to improve crop plants to ensure sustainable food production. Among various modern biotechnological tools, microRNAs (miRNAs) are one of the fascinating tools available for crop improvement. miRNAs belong to a class of small non-coding RNAs playing crucial roles in numerous biological processes. MiRNAs regulate gene expression by post-transcriptional target mRNA degradation or by translation repression. Plant miRNAs have essential roles in plant development and various biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. In this review, we provide propelling evidence from previous studies conducted around miRNAs and provide a one-stop review of progress made for breeding stress-smart future crop plants. Specifically, we provide a summary of reported miRNAs and their target genes for improvement of plant growth and development, and abiotic and biotic stress tolerance. We also highlight miRNA-mediated engineering for crop improvement and sequence-based technologies available for the identification of stress-responsive miRNAs. [Display omitted]

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Title: miRNAs for crop improvement
Authors/Creators: Ali Raza - Oil Crops Research Institute
Sidra Charagh - Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Benjamin Karikari - University for Development Studies
Rahat Sharif - Yangzhou University
Vivek Yadav - Northwest A&F University
Muhammad Salman Mubarik - Department of Biotechnology
Madiha Habib - Genomics (United Kingdom)
Yuhui Zhuang - Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Chong Zhang - Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Hua Chen - Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Rajeev K. Varshney - Murdoch University, Food Futures Institute
Weijian Zhuang - Center of Legume Crop Genetics and Systems Biology, Oil Crops Research Institute, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), Fuzhou, 35002, China
Publication Details: Plant physiology and biochemistry, Vol.201, 107857
Publisher: Elsevier Masson SAS
Identifiers: 991005593768507891
Murdoch Affiliation: Centre for Crop and Food Innovation; State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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Collaboration types: Domestic collaboration; International collaboration
Citation topics: 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology; 3.4 Crop Science; 3.4.159 Arabidopsis
Web Of Science research areas: Plant Sciences
ESI research areas: Plant & Animal Science