Gene Pyramiding for Sustainable Crop Improvement against Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
By Richard Dormatey, Chao Sun, Kazim Ali, Jeffrey A. Coulter, Z. Bi, Jiang-ping Bai. Agronomy, 2020
85 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Sustainable agricultural production is endangered by several ecological factors, such as drought, extreme temperatures, excessive salts, parasitic ailments, and insect pest infestation. These challenging environmental factors may have adverse effects on future agriculture production in many countries. In modern agriculture, conventional crop-breeding techniques alone are inadequate for achieving the increasing population’s food demand on a sustainable basis. The advancement of molecular genetics and related technologies are promising tools for the selection of new crop species. Gene pyramiding through marker-assisted selection (MAS) and other techniques have accelerated the development of durable resistant/tolerant lines with high accuracy in the shortest period of time for agricultural sustainability. Gene stacking has not been fully utilized for biotic stress resistance development and quality improvement in most of the major cultivated crops. This review emphasizes on gene pyramiding techniques that are being successfully deployed in modern agriculture for improving crop tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses for sustainable crop improvement.
Subfields: Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Plant Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/be7d4ceef1ea77088e22d854dacb837c62e021c9
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Molecular Biology
In Plant Science
Citations in the corpus
- Consequences and Mitigation Strategies of Abiotic Stresses in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under the Changing Climate (2021, background): “In wheat, better tolerance under a water-limited environment was observed in double haploid transgenics [237] and also reported that this DH can be used in functional genomics studies in wheat.”