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Malik MR, Tang J, Sharma N, Burkitt C, Ji Y, Mykytyshyn M, Bohmert-Tatarev K, Peoples O, Snell KD. Camelina sativa, an oilseed at the nexus between model system and commercial crop. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2018; 37:1367-1381. [PMID: 29881973 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-018-2308-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Accepted: 06/01/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The rapid assessment of metabolic engineering strategies in plants is aided by crops that provide simple, high throughput transformation systems, a sequenced genome, and the ability to evaluate the resulting plants in field trials. Camelina sativa provides all of these attributes in a robust oilseed platform. The ability to perform field evaluation of Camelina is a useful, and in some studies essential benefit that allows researchers to evaluate how traits perform outside the strictly controlled conditions of a greenhouse. In the field the plants are subjected to higher light intensities, seasonal diurnal variations in temperature and light, competition for nutrients, and watering regimes dictated by natural weather patterns, all which may affect trait performance. There are difficulties associated with the use of Camelina. The current genetic resources available for Camelina pale in comparison to those developed for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana; however, the sequence similarity of the Arabidopsis and Camelina genomes often allows the use of Arabidopsis as a reference when additional information is needed. Camelina's genome, an allohexaploid, is more complex than other model crops, but the diploid inheritance of its three subgenomes is straightforward. The need to navigate three copies of each gene in genome editing or mutagenesis experiments adds some complexity but also provides advantages for gene dosage experiments. The ability to quickly engineer Camelina with novel traits, advance generations, and bulk up homozygous lines for small-scale field tests in less than a year, in our opinion, far outweighs the complexities associated with the crop.
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- Meghna R Malik
- Metabolix Oilseeds, Inc., 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada
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- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., 19 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA, 01801, USA
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- Metabolix Oilseeds, Inc., 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada
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- Metabolix Oilseeds, Inc., 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada
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- Metabolix Oilseeds, Inc., 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada
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- Metabolix Oilseeds, Inc., 110 Gymnasium Place, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 0W9, Canada
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- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., 19 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA, 01801, USA
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- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., 19 Presidential Way, Woburn, MA, 01801, USA.
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Germanà MA. Gametic embryogenesis and haploid technology as valuable support to plant breeding. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2011; 30:839-57. [PMID: 21431908 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-011-1061-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2011] [Revised: 03/12/2011] [Accepted: 03/12/2011] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Plant breeding is focused on continuously increasing crop production to meet the needs of an ever-growing world population, improving food quality to ensure a long and healthy life and address the problems of global warming and environment pollution, together with the challenges of developing novel sources of biofuels. The breeders' search for novel genetic combinations, with which to select plants with improved traits to satisfy both farmers and consumers, is endless. About half of the dramatic increase in crop yield obtained in the second half of the last century has been achieved thanks to the results of genetic improvement, while the residual advance has been due to the enhanced management techniques (pest and disease control, fertilization, and irrigation). Biotechnologies provide powerful tools for plant breeding, and among these ones, tissue culture, particularly haploid and doubled haploid technology, can effectively help to select superior plants. In fact, haploids (Hs), which are plants with gametophytic chromosome number, and doubled haploids (DHs), which are haploids that have undergone chromosome duplication, represent a particularly attractive biotechnological method to accelerate plant breeding. Currently, haploid technology, making possible through gametic embryogenesis the single-step development of complete homozygous lines from heterozygous parents, has already had a huge impact on agricultural systems of many agronomically important crops, representing an integral part in their improvement programmes. The aim of this review was to provide some background, recent advances, and future prospective on the employment of haploid technology through gametic embryogenesis as a powerful tool to support plant breeding.
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- Maria Antonietta Germanà
- Dipartimento DEMETRA, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 11, 90128, Palermo, Italy.
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Zhang H, Peng H, Li Y, Xu P, Wang X, Wu X. Patterns of DNA cytosine methylation between haploids and corresponding diploids in rice. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2048-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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