Major abiotic stresses on quality parameters in grain legumes: impacts and various strategies for improving quality traits

UC Jha, M Priya, YD Naik, H Nayyar, M Thudi… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abiotic stresses, such as drought, heat, salinity, waterlogging, tropospheric ozone, and
heavy metals, adversely affect crop growth and yield, posing significant challenges to crop …

Exploiting genetic and genomic resources to enhance productivity and abiotic stress adaptation of underutilized pulses

SL Dwivedi, MA Chapman, MT Abberton… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Underutilized pulses and their wild relatives are typically stress tolerant and their seeds are
packed with protein, fibers, minerals, vitamins, and phytochemicals. The consumption of …

[HTML][HTML] Adapting crops for climate change: regaining lost abiotic stress tolerance in crops

M Palmgren, S Shabala - Frontiers in Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
It is often stated that agricultural outputs need to increase substantially to meet the demands
for more food posed by a growing population. However, when accounting for climate …

Critical Sites of Serine Acetyltransferase in Lathyrus sativus L. Affecting Its Enzymatic Activities

H Ma, Y Song, Y Zhang, H Guo, G Lv… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
LsSAT2 (serine acetyltransferase in Lathyrus sativus) is the rate-limiting enzyme in
biosynthesis of β-N-oxalyl-l-α, β-diaminopropionic acid (β-ODAP), a neuroactive metabolite …

A chromosome-scale reference genome of grasspea (Lathyrus sativus)

M Vigouroux, P Novák, LC Oliveira, C Santos… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is an underutilised but promising legume crop with tolerance
to a wide range of abiotic and biotic stress factors, and potential for climate-resilient …

Understanding the Potential to Increase Adoption of Orphan Crops: The Case of Lathyrus spp. Cultivation in Greece

M Goufa, E Makeroufas, M Gerakari, E Sarri, A Ragkos… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Little progress has been made in translating the increased awareness of neglected and
underutilized crops into a viable tool for advancing not just sustainable development in rural …

A stepwise guide for pangenome development in crop plants: an alfalfa (Medicago sativa) case study

H Kaur, LM Shannon, DA Samac - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background The concept of pangenomics and the importance of structural variants is
gaining recognition within the plant genomics community. Due to advancements in …

[HTML][HTML] Wild Lathyrus—A Treasure of Novel Diversity

A Singh, R Balech, S Barpete, P Gupta, O Bouhlal… - Plants, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is a climate-smart legume crop with adaptation to fragile
agroecosystems. The genus Lathyrus is recognized for its vast genetic diversity …

Recent advances in molecular breeding and key insights into major pulse improvement efforts for sustainable food security

A Hassen, F Mekonnen, KK Zander, N Seid… - Gene Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Pulses are important crops for global food security and are highly adaptable to diverse
environmental conditions. Despite these merits, pulses often face neglect and …

Genome editing of an oxalyl-CoA synthetase gene in Lathyrus sativus reveals its role in oxalate metabolism

A Verma, L Kaur, N Kaur, A Bhardwaj, AK Pandey… - Plant Cell Reports, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Key message Established an Agrobacterium-mediated hairy root transformation
system for gene function analysis in Lathyrus sativus. Arabidopsis mutant complementation …