Salt-tolerant alternative crops as sources of quality food to mitigate the negative impact of salinity on agricultural production

I Egea, Y Estrada, C Faura… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
An increase of abiotic stress tolerance and nutritive value of foods is currently a priority
because of climate change and rising world population. Among abiotic stresses, salt stress …

Connecting genome structural variation with complex traits in crop plants

I Gabur, HS Chawla, RJ Snowdon… - Theoretical and applied …, 2019 - Springer
Key message Structural genome variation is a major determinant of useful trait diversity. We
describe how genome analysis methods are enabling discovery of trait-associated structural …

Advances in omics approaches for abiotic stress tolerance in tomato

J Chaudhary, P Khatri, P Singla, S Kumawat, A Kumari… - Biology, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tomato, one of the most important crops worldwide, has a high demand in the fresh fruit
market and processed food industries. Despite having considerably high productivity …

Strategies to modulate specialized metabolism in Mediterranean crops: From molecular aspects to field

R Balestrini, C Brunetti, M Cammareri… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Plant specialized metabolites (SMs) play an important role in the interaction with the
environment and are part of the plant defense response. These natural products are volatile …

Whole-Genome Resequencing of Seven Eggplant (Solanum melongena) and One Wild Relative (S. incanum) Accessions Provides New Insights and Breeding …

P Gramazio, H Yan, T Hasing, S Vilanova… - Frontiers in plant …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Whole-genome resequencing provides information of great relevance for crop genetics,
evolution, and breeding. Here, we present the first whole-genome resequencing study using …

Impact of biochar on the yield and nutritional quality of tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) under drought stress

M Usman, N Ahmad, W Raza, Z Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Undeviating climatic instabilities have increased the incidents of drought.
Crop performance and yield attributes of tomatoes are negatively affected by drought stress …

Mutagenesis-based plant breeding approaches and genome engineering: a review focused on tomato

D Shahwar, N Ahn, D Kim, W Ahn, Y Park - Mutation Research/Reviews in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breeding is the most important and efficient method for crop improvement involving repeated
modification of the genetic makeup of a plant population over many generations. In this …

Mediterranean long shelf-life landraces: an untapped genetic resource for tomato improvement

MÀ Conesa, M Fullana-Pericàs, A Granell… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Mediterranean long shelf-life (LSL) tomatoes are a group of landraces with a fruit
remaining sound up to 6–12 months after harvest. Most have been selected under semi-arid …

Pursuing the potential of heirloom cultivars to improve adaptation, nutritional, and culinary features of food crops

S Dwivedi, I Goldman, R Ortiz - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
The burdens of malnutrition, protein and micronutrient deficiency, and obesity cause
enormous costs to society. Crop nutritional quality has been compromised by the emphasis …

Multi-omics data integration provides insights into the post-harvest biology of a long shelf-life tomato landrace

R Aiese Cigliano, R Aversano, A Di Matteo… - Horticulture …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this study we investigated the transcriptome and epigenome dynamics of the tomato fruit
during post-harvest in a landrace belonging to a group of tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum …