Back into the wild—Apply untapped genetic diversity of wild relatives for crop improvement

H Zhang, N Mittal, LJ Leamy, O Barazani… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Deleterious effects of climate change and human activities, as well as diverse environmental
stresses, present critical challenges to food production and the maintenance of natural …

Potential breeding strategies for improving salt tolerance in crop plants

M Afzal, SES Hindawi, SS Alghamdi… - Journal of Plant Growth …, 2023 - Springer
Salinity is one of the significant abiotic stresses that negatively affect plant production
processes, growth, and development, which ultimately reduce yield. Plants adapt specific …

Yield-related salinity tolerance traits identified in a nested association mapping (NAM) population of wild barley

S Saade, A Maurer, M Shahid, H Oakey… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Producing sufficient food for nine billion people by 2050 will be constrained by soil salinity,
especially in irrigated systems. To improve crop yield, greater understanding of the genetic …

Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses reveal mechanisms of adaptation to salinity in which carbon and nitrogen metabolism is altered in sugar beet roots

L Liu, B Wang, D Liu, C Zou, P Wu, Z Wang, Y Wang… - BMC plant biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Beta vulgaris L. is one of the main sugar-producing crop species and is highly
adaptable to saline soil. This study explored the alterations to the carbon and nitrogen …

Comprehensive Evaluation and Transcriptome Analysis Reveal the Salt Tolerance Mechanism in Semi-Wild Cotton (Gossypium purpurascens)

Z Peng, A Rehman, X Li, X Jiang, C Tian… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Elevated salinity significantly threatens cotton growth, particularly during the germination
and seedling stages. The utilization of primitive species of Gossypium hirsutum, specifically …

3D RNA-seq: a powerful and flexible tool for rapid and accurate differential expression and alternative splicing analysis of RNA-seq data for biologists

W Guo, NA Tzioutziou, G Stephen, I Milne… - RNA biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis of gene expression and alternative
splicing should be routine and robust but is often a bottleneck for biologists because of …

Comprehensive transcriptome and metabolome profiling reveal metabolic mechanisms of Nitraria sibirica Pall. to salt stress

H Li, X Tang, X Yang, H Zhang - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Nitraria sibirica Pall., a typical halophyte that can survive under extreme drought conditions
and in saline-alkali environments, exhibits strong salt tolerance and environmental …

WGCNA analysis of salt-responsive core transcriptome identifies novel hub genes in rice

M Zhu, H Xie, X Wei, K Dossa, Y Yu, S Hui, G Tang… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Rice, being a major staple food crop and sensitive to salinity conditions, bears heavy yield
losses due to saline soil. Although some salt responsive genes have been identified in rice …

Transcriptomic analysis of salt-stress-responsive genes in barley roots and leaves

R Nefissi Ouertani, D Arasappan, G Abid… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Barley is characterized by a rich genetic diversity, making it an important model for studies of
salinity response with great potential for crop improvement. Moreover, salt stress severely …

De-novo Domestication for Improving Salt Tolerance in Crops

A Razzaq, F Saleem, SH Wani… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Global agriculture production is under serious threat from rapidly increasing population and
adverse climate changes. Food security is currently a huge challenge to feed 10 billion …