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 …

DNA methylation in plant responses and adaption to abiotic stresses

M Sun, Z Yang, L Liu, L Duan - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to their sessile state, plants are inevitably affected by and respond to the external
environment. So far, plants have developed multiple adaptation and regulation strategies to …

Regulation of fleshy fruit ripening: from transcription factors to epigenetic modifications

X Li, X Wang, Y Zhang, A Zhang… - Horticulture Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fleshy fruits undergo a complex ripening process, develo** organoleptic fruit traits that
attract herbivores and maximize seed dispersal. Ripening is the terminal stage of fruit …

[HTML][HTML] Redox status of the plant cell determines epigenetic modifications under abiotic stress conditions and during developmental processes

M Ramakrishnan, PK Papolu, L Satish, KK Vinod… - Journal of Advanced …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background The oxidation-reduction (redox) status of the cell influences or regulates
transcription factors and enzymes involved in epigenetic changes, such as DNA methylation …

CRISPR-Cas: A robust technology for enhancing consumer-preferred commercial traits in crops

V Verma, A Kumar, M Partap, M Thakur… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The acceptance of new crop varieties by consumers is contingent on the presence of
consumer-preferred traits, which include sensory attributes, nutritional value, industrial …

Exploring the crop epigenome: a comparison of DNA methylation profiling techniques

DR Agius, A Kapazoglou, E Avramidou… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Epigenetic modifications play a vital role in the preservation of genome integrity and in the
regulation of gene expression. DNA methylation, one of the key mechanisms of epigenetic …