Analysis of Crop Genetic and Germplasm Diversity

Ron, Antonio M. De; Rodiño, A. Paula

doi:10.3390/agronomy12010091

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“…The steps required to provide genetic material for plant improvement are collecting genetic resources through exploration, conservation, evaluating their characteristics, and utilizing them [10]. Genetic resources are one of the most critical natural resources and are the basic capital needed to develop the agricultural industry and develop new varieties or cultivars [11].…”

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Exploration and Characterization of Johar (Cassia siamea) Accession as a Source of Raw Material for Antimalaria Drug

Widiyastuti,

Subositi,

Haryanti

et al. 2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Johar is a medicinal plant belonging to the Fabaceae family, often planted as a roadside shade. Empirically, johar leaf is used for traditional medicine, including malaria, itching, scabies, diabetes, fever, wounds, and tonic. The active compound responsible for the antimalarial activity, Casiarine A, has been successfully isolated and identified from the johar leaf. The availability of johar plants with a high content of Casiarine A as the active compound is very necessary. For this reason, exploration and characterization of johar were carried out to provide superior accessions with high biomass production and bioactive compound content. The research was conducted in an exploratory accession of the plants from certain Central and East Java areas. The sample plants were morphologically characterized, and productivity tests were investigated, including the simplicia dry yield, total extract content, and phytochemical profile. The results showed that 13 johar accessions were obtained from 13 growing regions with similar morphological characters. The main differences observed were in the size, color, and shape of the leaves. The growth location affects dry yield, total extract content, and phytochemical profile. Based on the measured parameters, Johar accessions were grouped into lowland, midland, and highland clusters according to their growth locations.

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Exploration and Characterization of Johar (Cassia siamea) Accession as a Source of Raw Material for Antimalaria Drug

Widiyastuti,

Subositi,

Haryanti

et al. 2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…Plant genetic resources are the foundation for variety development to meet the increased food demand and mitigate climate change (Ron & Rodiño, 2022). Globally, about 40,182 finger millet accessions have been maintained by various gene banks of different countries and institutions (Dwivedi et al, 2012; EBI, 2023; ICRISAT, 2017; PGRC, 2016).…”

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Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) improvement: Challenges and prospects—A review

Gebreyohannes,

Shimelis,

Mashilo

et al. 2024

Plant Breeding

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Finger millet is a climate‐resilient and highly nutritious small grain crop widely grown in the semi‐arid tropics. It has multiple uses, including for food, feed and beverage preparations. However, finger millet is an under‐utilized and under‐researched crop with a mean yield of <1.0 t/ha despite a potential productivity of up to 8 t/ha. The yield gap is attributed to several production constraints, such as biotic and abiotic stresses, a lack of access to improved seeds and production inputs and poor agronomic management practices. There are valuable genetic resources and genetic variability of finger millet in its centres of diversity and global gene banks for variety design, product development and commercialization. The genetic variability can be harnessed further to integrate essential traits into candidate varieties through conventional and modern breeding methods. Breeding and genetic innovations such as genomics‐assisted breeding, mutation breeding and genome editing would accelerate finger millet breeding and new variety design and deployment. The objective of this review was to document the opportunities, challenges and prospects of finger millet improvement as a guide for variety development and deployment with enhanced grain yield and nutritional contents. The first section describes global production status and yield gains, major production and productivity challenges in finger millet. This is followed by an in‐depth presentation on breeding and genetic progress on variety development with improved agronomic and nutritional quality traits, drought and salinity tolerance, and fungal diseases, weeds and insect pest resistance. Further, the review summarized finger millet's genetic and genomic resources, reference genomes, whole genome re‐sequencing and transcriptomics of finger millet technologies, genetic engineering and genome editing and their integration with conventional breeding methods for variety design with desired end‐use traits. The review provides foundational information to expedite the development of new‐generation finger millet cultivars with desirable product profiles, including high grain yield potential, early maturity, desirable seed colour, compact head type, food and feed nutrients quality and high marketability through modern breeding approaches.

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Genotypic variation for stress tolerance in legume crops

Lone,

Sahoo,

Kumar

et al. 2024

Improving Stress Resilience in Plants

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Analysis of Crop Genetic and Germplasm Diversity

Abstract: Plant genetic resources are the basis for the genetic improvement of cultivated plants and future food and feed security [...]

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Exploration and Characterization of Johar (Cassia siamea) Accession as a Source of Raw Material for Antimalaria Drug

Exploration and Characterization of Johar (Cassia siamea) Accession as a Source of Raw Material for Antimalaria Drug

Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) improvement: Challenges and prospects—A review

Genotypic variation for stress tolerance in legume crops

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