Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022‏ - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

QTL and candidate genes: techniques and advancement in abiotic stress resistance breeding of major cereals

SRG Raj, K Nadarajah - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
At least 75% of the world's grain production comes from the three most important cereal
crops: rice (Oryza sativa), wheat (Triticum aestivum), and maize (Zea mays). However …

Introgression of “QTL‐hotspot” region enhances drought tolerance and grain yield in three elite chickpea cultivars

C Bharadwaj, S Tripathi, KR Soren, M Thudi… - The Plant …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
With an aim of enhancing drought tolerance using a marker‐assisted backcrossing (MABC)
approach, we introgressed the “QTL‐hotspot” region from ICC 4958 accession that harbors …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing the potential of plant transcription factors in develo** climate resilient crops to improve global food security: Current and future perspectives

R Shahzad, S Jamil, S Ahmad, A Nisar, Z Amina… - Saudi journal of …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Crop plants should be resilient to climatic factors in order to feed ever-increasing
populations. Plants have developed stress-responsive mechanisms by changing their …

[HTML][HTML] Updates and prospects: morphological, physiological, and molecular regulation in crop response to waterlogging stress

L Yang, N Li, Y Liu, P Miao, J Liu, Z Wang - Agronomy, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
With the frequent occurrence of extreme weather such as typhoons and rainstorms,
waterlogging has become one of the most important threats to global crop growth and …

Integrating multivariate and univariate statistical models to investigate genotype–environment interaction of advanced fragrant rice genotypes under rainfed condition

N Hashim, MY Rafii, Y Oladosu, MR Ismail, A Ramli… - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Specialty fragrant rice is sold at a premium price in both local and international trade
because of its superior grain qualities. In this research, 40 advanced fragrant rice …

Flooding tolerance in Rice: Adaptive mechanism and marker-assisted selection breeding approaches

MA Haque, MY Rafii, MM Yusoff, NS Ali… - Molecular Biology …, 2023‏ - Springer
Natural and man-made ecosystems worldwide are subjected to flooding, which is a form of
environmental stress. Genetic variability in the plant response to flooding involves variations …

Sub1 QTL confers submergence tolerance in rice through nitro-oxidative regulation and phytohormonal signaling

S Basu, S Kumari, G Kumar - Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Constant change in global climate has become the most important limiting factor to crop
productivity. Asymmetrical precipitations are causing recurrent flood events around the …

Understanding Omics Driven Plant Improvement and de novo Crop Domestication: Some Examples

R Kumar, V Sharma, S Suresh, DP Ramrao… - Frontiers in …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
In the current era, one of biggest challenges is to shorten the breeding cycle for rapid
generation of a new crop variety having high yield capacity, disease resistance, high nutrient …

Genome-wide association studies using 50 K rice genic SNP chip unveil genetic architecture for anaerobic germination of deep-water rice population of Assam, India

M Rohilla, N Singh, A Mazumder, P Sen, P Roy… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2020‏ - Springer
Abstract North Eastern part of India such as Assam is inundated by flood every year where
the farmers are forced to grow the traditional tall deep-water rice. Genetic improvement of …