Utilizing RNA-Based Approaches to Understand Plant-Insect Interactions

Dangol, Sarbesh Das; Hashmi, Muneeb Hassan; Saeed, Faisal; Yel, Ilknur; Öztürk, Alperen; Bakhsh, Allah

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64994-4_17

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“…The researchers and private companies used SDNs frequently to make vegetables more resistant to abiotic stresses. CRISPR technology is widely used to produce desired mutations in the genome of vegetables (Adli 2018;Dangol et al 2021). Off-target is a major concern while using these SDNs for editing.…”

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Developing future heat-resilient vegetable crops

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Chaudhry

Raza

et al. 2023

Funct Integr Genomics

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Climate change seriously impacts global agriculture, with rising temperatures directly affecting the yield. Vegetables are an essential part of daily human consumption and thus have importance among all agricultural crops. The human population is increasing daily, so there is a need for alternative ways which can be helpful in maximizing the harvestable yield of vegetables. The increase in temperature directly affects the plants’ biochemical and molecular processes; having a significant impact on quality and yield. Breeding for climate-resilient crops with good yields takes a long time and lots of breeding efforts. However, with the advent of new omics technologies, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, the efficiency and efficacy of unearthing information on pathways associated with high-temperature stress resilience has improved in many of the vegetable crops. Besides omics, the use of genomics-assisted breeding and new breeding approaches such as gene editing and speed breeding allow creation of modern vegetable cultivars that are more resilient to high temperatures. Collectively, these approaches will shorten the time to create and release novel vegetable varieties to meet growing demands for productivity and quality. This review discusses the effects of heat stress on vegetables and highlights recent research with a focus on how omics and genome editing can produce temperature-resilient vegetables more efficiently and faster.

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Developing future heat-resilient vegetable crops

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et al. 2023

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“…In parallel, targeted genetic modification has been greatly benefitted by the availability of the whole genome sequence information in different crop species. For instance, genome editing techniques such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology using RNA-guided nucleases have facilitated the alteration of a variety of important plant phenotypes ( Ma et al, 2016 ; Saeed et al, 2020 ; Dangol et al, 2021 ).…”

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Moving Beyond DNA Sequence to Improve Plant Stress Responses

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et al. 2022

Front. Genet.

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Plants offer a habitat for a range of interactions to occur among different stress factors. Epigenetics has become the most promising functional genomics tool, with huge potential for improving plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses. Advances in plant molecular biology have dramatically changed our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that control these interactions, and plant epigenetics has attracted great interest in this context. Accumulating literature substantiates the crucial role of epigenetics in the diversity of plant responses that can be harnessed to accelerate the progress of crop improvement. However, harnessing epigenetics to its full potential will require a thorough understanding of the epigenetic modifications and assessing the functional relevance of these variants. The modern technologies of profiling and engineering plants at genome-wide scale provide new horizons to elucidate how epigenetic modifications occur in plants in response to stress conditions. This review summarizes recent progress on understanding the epigenetic regulation of plant stress responses, methods to detect genome-wide epigenetic modifications, and disentangling their contributions to plant phenotypes from other sources of variations. Key epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress memory are highlighted. Linking plant response with the patterns of epigenetic variations would help devise breeding strategies for improving crop performance under stressed scenarios.

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