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Kashtwari M, Mansoor S, Wani AA, Najar MA, Deshmukh RK, Baloch FS, Abidi I, Zargar SM. Random mutagenesis in vegetatively propagated crops: opportunities, challenges and genome editing prospects. Mol Biol Rep 2021; 49:5729-5749. [PMID: 34427889 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-021-06650-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
In order to meet the growing human food and nutrition demand a perpetual process of crop improvement is idealized. It has seen changing trends and varying concepts throughout human history; from simple selection to complex gene-editing. Among these techniques, random mutagenesis has been shown to be a promising technology to achieve desirable genetic gain with less time and minimal efforts. Over the decade, several hundred varieties have been released through random mutagenesis, but the production is falling behind the demand. Several food crops like banana, potato, cassava, sweet potato, apple, citrus, and others are vegetatively propagated. Since such crops are not propagated through seed, genetic improvement through classical breeding is impractical for them. Besides, in the case of polyploids, accomplishment of allelic homozygosity requires a considerable land area, extensive fieldwork with huge manpower, and hefty funding for an extended period of time. Apart from induction, mapping of induced genes to facilitate the knowledge of biological processes has been performed only in a few selected facultative vegetative crops like banana and cassava which can form a segregating population. During the last few decades, there has been a shift in the techniques used for crop improvement. With the introduction of the robust technologies like meganucleases, zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) more and more crops are being subjected to gene editing. However, more work needs to be done in case of vegetatively propagated crops.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mahpara Kashtwari
- Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190006, India
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- Division of Biochemistry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, FBSc, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, 180009, India
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- Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190006, India.
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- Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190006, India
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- National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, Punjab, 140308, India
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- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies, Sivas University of Science and Technology, Sivas, Turkey
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- Directorate of Research, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shalimar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190025, India
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- Proteomics Laboratory, Division of Plant Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Shalimar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190025, India.
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