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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kole, Chittaranjan
• Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan
• Henry, Robert
• Edwards, David
• Sharma, Rishu
• Abberton, Michael
• Batley, Jacqueline
• Bentley, Alison
• Blakeney, Michael
• Bryant, John
• Cai, Hongwei
• Cakir, Mehmet
• Cseke, Leland J
• Cockram, James
• de Oliveira, Antonio Costa
• De Pace, Ciro
• Dempewolf, Hannes
• Ellison, Shelby
• Gepts, Paul
• Greenland, Andy
• Hall, Anthony
• Hori, Kiyosumi
• Hughes, Stephen
• Humphreys, Mike W
• Iorizzo, Massimo
• Ismail, Abdelbagi M
• Marshall, Athole
• Mayes, Sean
• Nguyen, Henry T
• Ogbonnaya, Francis C
• Ortiz, Rodomiro
• Paterson, Andrew H
• Simon, Philipp W
• Tohme, Joe
• Tuberosa, Roberto
• Valliyodan, Babu
• Varshney, Rajeev K
• Wullschleger, Stan D
• Yano, Masahiro
• Prasad, Manoj

Titel

Application of genomics-assisted breeding for generation of climate resilient crops: progress and prospects

Ist Teil von

• Frontiers in plant science, 2015-08, Vol.6, p.563

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Frontiers Media S.A

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Climate change affects agricultural productivity worldwide. Increased prices of food commodities are the initial indication of drastic edible yield loss, which is expected to increase further due to global warming. This situation has compelled plant scientists to develop climate change-resilient crops, which can withstand broad-spectrum stresses such as drought, heat, cold, salinity, flood, submergence and pests, thus helping to deliver increased productivity. Genomics appears to be a promising tool for deciphering the stress responsiveness of crop species with adaptation traits or in wild relatives toward identifying underlying genes, alleles or quantitative trait loci. Molecular breeding approaches have proven helpful in enhancing the stress adaptation of crop plants, and recent advances in high-throughput sequencing and phenotyping platforms have transformed molecular breeding to genomics-assisted breeding (GAB). In view of this, the present review elaborates the progress and prospects of GAB for improving climate change resilience in crops, which is likely to play an ever increasing role in the effort to ensure global food security.