Integrating omics and gene editing tools for rapid improvement of traditional food plants for diversified and sustainable food security

A Kumar, T Anju, S Kumar, SS Chhapekar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Indigenous communities across the globe, especially in rural areas, consume locally
available plants known as Traditional Food Plants (TFPs) for their nutritional and health …

Rapid improvement of domestication traits in an orphan crop by genome editing

ZH Lemmon, NT Reem, J Dalrymple, S Soyk… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
Genome editing holds great promise for increasing crop productivity, and there is particular
interest in advancing breeding in orphan crops, which are often burdened by undesirable …

Bioinformatics challenges in de novo transcriptome assembly using short read sequences in the absence of a reference genome sequence

E Góngora-Castillo, CR Buell - Natural product reports, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Plant natural product research can be facilitated through genome and transcriptome
sequencing approaches that generate informative sequence and expression datasets that …

Eocene lantern fruits from Gondwanan Patagonia and the early origins of Solanaceae

P Wilf, MR Carvalho, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo - Science, 2017 - science.org
The nightshade family Solanaceae holds exceptional economic and cultural importance.
The early diversification of Solanaceae is thought to have occurred in South America during …

Endogenous Hormones Inhibit Differentiation of Young Ears in Maize (Zea mays L.) Under Heat Stress

HQ Wang, P Liu, JW Zhang, B Zhao… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Global warming frequently leads to extreme temperatures, which pose a serious threat to the
growth, development, and yield formation of crops such as maize. This study aimed to …

Next Generation Sequencing and Transcriptome Analysis Predicts Biosynthetic Pathway of Sennosides from Senna (Cassia angustifolia Vahl.), a Non-Model Plant …

NR Rama Reddy, RH Mehta, PH Soni, J Makasana… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Senna (Cassia angustifolia Vahl.) is a world's natural laxative medicinal plant. Laxative
properties are due to sennosides (anthraquinone glycosides) natural products. However …

Evolutionarily dynamic, but robust, targeting of resistance genes by the miR482/2118 gene family in the Solanaceae

S de Vries, T Kloesges, LE Rose - Genome Biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Plants are exposed to pathogens around the clock. A common resistance response in plants
upon pathogen detection is localized cell death. Given the irreversible nature of this …

Transcriptome characterisation of Pinus tabuliformis and evolution of genes in the Pinusphylogeny

SH Niu, ZX Li, HW Yuan, XY Chen, Y Li, W Li - Bmc Genomics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The Chinese pine (Pinus tabuliformis) is an indigenous conifer species
in northern China but is relatively underdeveloped as a genomic resource; thus, limiting …

Complete genome sequence of an isolate of Potato virus X (PVX) infecting Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) in Colombia

PA Gutiérrez, JF Alzate, MM Montoya - Virus Genes, 2015 - Springer
Transcriptome analysis of a Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana) plant with leaf symptoms
of a mild yellow mosaic typical of a viral disease revealed an infection with Potato virus X …

Comparative metabolomic and proteomic analyses reveal the regulation mechanism underlying MeJA-induced bioactive compound accumulation in cutleaf …

X Zhan, X Liao, X Luo, Y Zhu, S Feng… - Journal of agricultural …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Cutleaf groundcherry (Physalis angulata L.) is an annual plant with a number of medicinal
ingredients. However, studies about the secondary metabolism of P. angulata are very …