Genome editing for sustainable crop improvement and mitigation of biotic and abiotic stresses

MF Hamdan, CKS Karlson, EY Teoh, SE Lau, BC Tan - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change poses a serious threat to global agricultural activity and food production.
Plant genome editing technologies have been widely used to develop crop varieties with …

A short review on sugarcane: its domestication, molecular manipulations and future perspectives

KS Dinesh Babu, V Janakiraman… - Genetic Resources and …, 2022 - Springer
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is a special crop plant that underwent anthropogenic evolution
from a wild grass species to an important food, fodder, and energy crop. Unlike any other …

Genetic engineering for enhancing sugarcane tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses

T Kumar, JG Wang, CH Xu, X Lu, J Mao, XQ Lin… - Plants, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane, a vital cash crop, contributes significantly to the world's sugar supply and raw
materials for biofuel production, playing a significant role in the global sugar industry …

Dissecting the features of TGA gene family in Saccharum and the functions of ScTGA1 under biotic stresses

Z Zhao, R Zhang, D Wang, J Zhang, S Zang… - Plant Physiology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sugarcane is an important sugar and energy crop and smut disease caused by Sporisorium
scitamineum is a major fungal disease which can seriously reduce the yield and quality of …

From transgenesis to genome editing in crop improvement: applications, marketing, and legal issues

D Marone, AM Mastrangelo, GM Borrelli - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The biotechnological approaches of transgenesis and the more recent eco-friendly new
breeding techniques (NBTs), in particular, genome editing, offer useful strategies for genetic …

Sugarcane productivity and sugar yield improvement: Selecting variety, nitrogen fertilizer rate, and bioregulator as a first-line treatment

B Desalegn, E Kebede, H Legesse, T Fite - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The improvement of sugarcane productivity depends on the crop varieties, growth
environments, and management practices. In particular, the selection of the most productive …

Transgene-free genome editing for biotic and abiotic stress resistance in sugarcane: prospects and challenges

S Surya Krishna, SR Harish Chandar, M Ravi… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is one of the most valuable food and industrial crops. Its
production is constrained due to major biotic (fungi, bacteria, viruses and insect pests) and …

Greater aperture counteracts effects of reduced stomatal density on water use efficiency: a case study on sugarcane and meta-analysis

D Lunn, B Kannan, A Germon, A Leverett… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Stomata regulate CO2 and water vapor exchange between leaves and the atmosphere.
Stomata are a target for engineering to improve crop intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) …

Genetic engineering: an efficient approach to mitigating biotic and abiotic stresses in sugarcane cultivation

KK Verma, XP Song, F Budeguer, A Nikpay… - Plant Signaling & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Biotic and abiotic stresses are the foremost limiting factors for crop productivity. Crop plants
need to cope with adverse external pressure caused by various environmental conditions …

Genome-wide association study unravels quantitative trait loci and genes associated with yield-related traits in sugarcane

B Zhang, Y Huang, L Zhang, Z Zhou… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sugarcane, a major sugar and energy crop worldwide faces an increasing demand for
higher yields. Identifying yield-related markers and candidate genes is valuable for breeding …