Leveraging the sugarcane CRISPR/Cas9 technique for genetic improvement of non-cultivated grasses

C Li, MA Iqbal - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Under changing climatic scenarios, grassland conservation and development have become
imperative to impart functional sustainability to their ecosystem services. These goals could …

Factors affecting the production of sugarcane yield and sucrose accumulation: suggested potential biological solutions

F Mehdi, Z Cao, S Zhang, Y Gan, W Cai… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Environmental stresses are the main constraints on agricultural productivity and food
security worldwide. This issue is worsened by abrupt and severe changes in global climate …

Gene map** via bulked segregant RNA-Seq (BSR-Seq)

S Liu, CT Yeh, HM Tang, D Nettleton, PS Schnable - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Bulked segregant analysis (BSA) is an efficient method to rapidly and efficiently map genes
responsible for mutant phenotypes. BSA requires access to quantitative genetic markers that …

Sugarcane breeding: a fantastic past and promising future driven by technology and methods

G Lu, P Liu, Q Wu, S Zhang, P Zhao, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Sugarcane is the most important sugar and energy crop in the world. During sugarcane
breeding, technology is the requirement and methods are the means. As we know, seed is …

Sugarcane ratooning ability: research status, shortcomings, and prospects

F Xu, Z Wang, G Lu, R Zeng, Y Que - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sugarcane is an important sugar crop and it can be subjected to ratooning for several years.
The advantages of ratooning include quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, and …

Sugarcane improvement through breeding and biotechnology.

R Ming, PH Moore, KK Wu, A D'hont, JC Glaszmann… - 2006 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This review summarizes recent work on sugarcane crop improvement through conventional
breeding and the rapid advancement in molecular biology and biotechnology in sugarcane …

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 …

Haplotype structure around Bru1 reveals a narrow genetic basis for brown rust resistance in modern sugarcane cultivars

L Costet, L Le Cunff, S Royaert, LM Raboin… - Theoretical and applied …, 2012 - Springer
Modern sugarcane cultivars (Saccharum spp., 2 n= 100–130) are high polyploid, aneuploid
and of interspecific origin. A major gene (Bru 1) conferring resistance to brown rust, caused …

QTL sequencing strategy to map genomic regions associated with resistance to ascochyta blight in chickpea

A Deokar, M Sagi, K Daba… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome sequencing‐based bulked segregant analysis (BSA) for map**
quantitative trait loci (QTL) provides an efficient alternative approach to conventional QTL …

CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing for sugarcane improvement

AK Mall, R Manimekalai, V Misra, H Pandey… - Sugar Tech, 2024 - Springer
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) is among the significant industrial cash crops. It serves
as an essential raw material to produce biofuels and the global sugar industry. Natural …