Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops

Benitez-Alfonso, Yoselin; Soanes, Beth K.; Zimba, Sibongile; Sinanaj, Besiana; German, Liam; Sharma, Vinay; Bohra, Abhishek; Kolesnikova, Anastasia; Dunn, Jessica A.; Martin, Azahara C.; Khashi u Rahman, Muhammad; Saati-Santamaría, Zaki; García-Fraile, Paula; Ferreira, Evander A.; Frazão, Leidivan A.; Cowling, Wallace A.; Siddique, Kadambot H.M.; Pandey, Manish K.; Farooq, Muhammad; Varshney, Rajeev K.; Chapman, Mark A.; Boesch, Christine; Daszkowska-Golec, Agata; Foyer, Christine H.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.028

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“…However, long-term impacts are now evident: degraded soils, reduced groundwater levels, contaminated and salinized water bodies, and reduced biodiversity. Furthermore, high crop yields cannot be sustained without increased fertilizer use [ 6 , 11 , 12 , 13 ]. Traditional crossbreeding is straightforward when selecting for morphological traits that are easy to observe in field, such as height, grain size, color, and leaf shape, etc.…”

Section: Cereal Cropsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Plant Biotechnology—An Indispensable Tool for Crop Improvement

Pathirana,

Carimi

2024

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Section: Cereal Cropsmentioning

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“…It has also played a crucial role in promoting environmental sustainability and has had positive economic impacts on agriculture. For example, the introduction of perennial cereals can alleviate many problems of annual monocultures [ 6 , 11 , 12 , 13 ]. Thinopyrum spp.…”

Section: Cereal Cropsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant Biotechnology—An Indispensable Tool for Crop Improvement

Pathirana,

Carimi

2024

Plants

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“…Climate change and agricultural production are inextricably linked. Climate change produces various abiotic stresses, including rising global temperatures, drought, cold/freezing, soil salinity, precipitation patterns, wind patterns, waterlogging, metal(loid)s, and other climate events, either directly or indirectly attributed to human actions (Hong et al 2020 ; Zandalinas et al 2021 , 2023 ; Farooq et al 2022 ; Benitez-Alfonso et al 2023 ). Consequently, understanding the impact of climate change on food safety necessitates a nuanced consideration of the complex interactions that eventually affect the food chain (Shahzad et al 2021 ; Zandalinas et al 2021 , 2023 ; Farooq et al 2022 ; Benitez-Alfonso et al 2023 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Climate change produces various abiotic stresses, including rising global temperatures, drought, cold/freezing, soil salinity, precipitation patterns, wind patterns, waterlogging, metal(loid)s, and other climate events, either directly or indirectly attributed to human actions (Hong et al 2020 ; Zandalinas et al 2021 , 2023 ; Farooq et al 2022 ; Benitez-Alfonso et al 2023 ). Consequently, understanding the impact of climate change on food safety necessitates a nuanced consideration of the complex interactions that eventually affect the food chain (Shahzad et al 2021 ; Zandalinas et al 2021 , 2023 ; Farooq et al 2022 ; Benitez-Alfonso et al 2023 ). Among abiotic stresses, metal(loid) toxicity, encompassing elements such as cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), arsenic (As), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), nickel (Ni), zinc (Zn), selenium (Se), and iron (Fe), significantly impairs the growth and productivity of food crops (Edelstein and Ben-Hur 2018 ; Angulo-Bejarano et al 2021 ; Raza et al 2021 , 2022 ; Hassan et al 2022 ; Ghuge et al 2023 ; Kapoor et al 2023 ).…”

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Transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics interventions prompt crop improvement against metal(loid) toxicity

Raza,

Salehi,

Bashir

et al. 2024

Plant Cell Rep

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The escalating challenges posed by metal(loid) toxicity in agricultural ecosystems, exacerbated by rapid climate change and anthropogenic pressures, demand urgent attention. Soil contamination is a critical issue because it significantly impacts crop productivity. The widespread threat of metal(loid) toxicity can jeopardize global food security due to contaminated food supplies and pose environmental risks, contributing to soil and water pollution and thus impacting the whole ecosystem. In this context, plants have evolved complex mechanisms to combat metal(loid) stress. Amid the array of innovative approaches, omics, notably transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, have emerged as transformative tools, shedding light on the genes, proteins, and key metabolites involved in metal(loid) stress responses and tolerance mechanisms. These identified candidates hold promise for developing high-yielding crops with desirable agronomic traits. Computational biology tools like bioinformatics, biological databases, and analytical pipelines support these omics approaches by harnessing diverse information and facilitating the mapping of genotype-to-phenotype relationships under stress conditions. This review explores: (1) the multifaceted strategies that plants use to adapt to metal(loid) toxicity in their environment; (2) the latest findings in metal(loid)-mediated transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics studies across various plant species; (3) the integration of omics data with artificial intelligence and high-throughput phenotyping; (4) the latest bioinformatics databases, tools and pipelines for single and/or multi-omics data integration; (5) the latest insights into stress adaptations and tolerance mechanisms for future outlooks; and (6) the capacity of omics advances for creating sustainable and resilient crop plants that can thrive in metal(loid)-contaminated environments.

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“…Furthermore, climate change has worsened agricultural productivity in most developing countries by intensifying environmental stressors [4]. The current issue of contemporary agriculture is to ensure a feasible growth in global food production to feed the world's expanding population under limited resources without harming the environment [5]. In addition, climatic anomalies, environmental cues, soil infertility, and malnutrition have pushed agricultural scientists and farmers to adopt new technologies to address these issues.…”

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Genomics-Assisted Breeding: A Powerful Breeding Approach for Improving Plant Growth and Stress Resilience

Tyagi,

Mir,

Almalki

et al. 2024

Agronomy

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Climate change biotic and abiotic stressors lead to unpredictable crop yield losses, threatening global food and nutritional security. In the past, traditional breeding has been instrumental in fulfilling food demand; however, owing to its low efficiency, dependence on environmental conditions, labor intensity, and time consumption, it fails to maintain global food demand in the face of a rapidly changing environment and an expanding population. In this regard, plant breeders need to integrate multiple disciplines and technologies, such as genotyping, phenotyping, and envirotyping, in order to produce stress-resilient and high-yielding crops in a shorter time. With the technological revolution, plant breeding has undergone various reformations, for example, artificial selection breeding, hybrid breeding, molecular breeding, and precise breeding, which have been instrumental in developing high-yielding and stress-resilient crops in modern agriculture. Marker-assisted selection, also known as marker-assisted breeding, emerged as a game changer in modern breeding and has evolved over time into genomics-assisted breeding (GAB). It involves genomic information of crops to speed up plant breeding in order to develop stress-resilient and high-yielding crops. The combination of speed breeding with genomic and phenomic resources enabled the identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs)/genes quickly, thereby accelerating crop improvement efforts. In this review, we provided an update on rapid advancement in molecular plant breeding, mainly GAB, for efficient crop improvements. We also highlighted the importance of GAB for improving biotic and abiotic stress tolerance as well as crop productivity in different crop systems. Finally, we discussed how the expansion of GAB to omics-assisted breeding (OAB) will contribute to the development of future resilient crops.

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Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops

Cited by 38 publications

References 197 publications

Plant Biotechnology—An Indispensable Tool for Crop Improvement

Plant Biotechnology—An Indispensable Tool for Crop Improvement

Transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics interventions prompt crop improvement against metal(loid) toxicity

Genomics-Assisted Breeding: A Powerful Breeding Approach for Improving Plant Growth and Stress Resilience

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