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Salse J, Barnard RL, Veneault-Fourrey C, Rouached H. Strategies for breeding crops for future environments. Trends Plant Sci 2024; 29:303-318. [PMID: 37833181 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2023.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 08/08/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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The green revolution successfully increased agricultural output in the early 1960s by relying primarily on three pillars: plant breeding, irrigation, and chemical fertilization. Today, the need to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, water scarcity, and future environmental changes, together with a growing population, requires innovative strategies to adapt to a new context and prevent food shortages. Therefore, scientists from around the world are directing their efforts to breed crops for future environments to sustainably produce more nutritious food. Herein, we propose scientific avenues to be reinforced in selecting varieties, including crop wild relatives, either for monoculture or mixed cropping systems, taking advantage of plant-microbial interactions, while considering the diversity of organisms associated with crops and unlocking combinatorial nutritional stresses.
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- Jérôme Salse
- UCA-INRAE UMR 1095 Genetics, Diversity, and Ecophysiology of Cereals (GDEC), 5 Chemin de Beaulieu, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Agroécologie, INRAE, Institut Agro, Université de Bourgogne, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
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- Université de Lorraine, INRAE, Unité Mixte de Recherche Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Department of Plant, Soil, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA; The Plant Resilience Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA.
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Tariq A, Mushtaq M, Yaqoob H, Bhat BA, Zargar SM, Raza A, Ali S, Charagh S, Mubarik MS, Zaman QU, Prasad PV, Mir RA. Putting CRISPR-Cas system in action: a golden window for efficient and precise genome editing for crop improvement. GM Crops Food 2023; 14:1-27. [PMID: 37288976 DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2023.2219111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The daunting task of feeding an ever-growing population is an immense challenge for the contemporary scientific community, especially in view of the rapidly changing climate throughout the world. Amidst these threatening crises, we witness rapid development in genome editing (GE) technologies, revolutionizing the field of applied genomics and molecular breeding. Various GE tools have been developed during the last two decades, but the CRISPR/Cas system has most recently made a significant impact on crop improvement. The major breakthroughs of this versatile toolbox are genomic modifications like single base-substitutions, multiplex GE, gene regulation, screening mutagenesis, and enhancing the breeding of wild crop plants. Previously, this toolbox was used to modify genes related to significant traits such as biotic/abiotic resistance/tolerance, post-harvest traits, nutritional regulation, and to address self-incompatibility analysis-related challenges. In the present review, we have demonstrated the functional dynamics of CRISPR-based GE and its applicability in targeting genes to accomplish novel editing of crops. The compiled knowledge will provide a solid foundation for highlighting the primary source for applying CRISPR/Cas as a toolbox for enhancing crops, to achieve food and nutritional security.
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- Arooj Tariq
- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, BGSB University, Rajouri, J&K, India
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- MS Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences, Bajhol, Solan, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, BGSB University, Rajouri, J&K, India
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- Department of Bioresources, School of Biological Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J&Kr, India
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- Proteomics Laboratory, Division of Plant Biotechnology, (SKUAST-K), Shalimar, Kashmir, India
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- College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), Fuzhou, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory, Sanya Nanfan Research Institute of Hainan University, Sanya, China
- College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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- Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Kashmir, Ganderbal, J&K, India
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Yaqoob H, Tariq A, Bhat BA, Bhat KA, Nehvi IB, Raza A, Djalovic I, Prasad PVV, Mir RA. Integrating genomics and genome editing for orphan crop improvement: a bridge between orphan crops and modern agriculture system. GM Crops Food 2023; 14:1-20. [PMID: 36606637 PMCID: PMC9828793 DOI: 10.1080/21645698.2022.2146952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Domestication of orphan crops could be explored by editing their genomes. Genome editing has a lot of promise for enhancing agricultural output, and there is a lot of interest in furthering breeding in orphan crops, which are sometimes plagued with unwanted traits that resemble wild cousins. Consequently, applying model crop knowledge to orphan crops allows for the rapid generation of targeted allelic diversity and innovative breeding germplasm. We explain how plant breeders could employ genome editing as a novel platform to accelerate the domestication of semi-domesticated or wild plants, resulting in a more diversified base for future food and fodder supplies. This review emphasizes both the practicality of the strategy and the need to invest in research that advances our understanding of plant genomes, genes, and cellular systems. Planting more of these abandoned orphan crops could help alleviate food scarcities in the challenge of future climate crises.
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- Huwaida Yaqoob
- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Bioresources, School of Biological Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, SKIMS, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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- College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), Fuzhou, China,Ali Raza College of Agriculture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), Fuzhou, China
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- Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India,CONTACT Rakeeb Ahmad MirDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Farooq MS, Uzair M, Raza A, Habib M, Xu Y, Yousuf M, Yang SH, Ramzan Khan M. Uncovering the Research Gaps to Alleviate the Negative Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: A Review. Front Plant Sci 2022; 13:927535. [PMID: 35903229 PMCID: PMC9315450 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.927535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Climatic variability has been acquiring an extensive consideration due to its widespread ability to impact food production and livelihoods. Climate change has the potential to intersperse global approaches in alleviating hunger and undernutrition. It is hypothesized that climate shifts bring substantial negative impacts on food production systems, thereby intimidating food security. Vast developments have been made addressing the global climate change, undernourishment, and hunger for the last few decades, partly due to the increase in food productivity through augmented agricultural managements. However, the growing population has increased the demand for food, putting pressure on food systems. Moreover, the potential climate change impacts are still unclear more obviously at the regional scales. Climate change is expected to boost food insecurity challenges in areas already vulnerable to climate change. Human-induced climate change is expected to impact food quality, quantity, and potentiality to dispense it equitably. Global capabilities to ascertain the food security and nutritional reasonableness facing expeditious shifts in biophysical conditions are likely to be the main factors determining the level of global disease incidence. It can be apprehended that all food security components (mainly food access and utilization) likely be under indirect effect via pledged impacts on ménage, incomes, and damages to health. The corroboration supports the dire need for huge focused investments in mitigation and adaptation measures to have sustainable, climate-smart, eco-friendly, and climate stress resilient food production systems. In this paper, we discussed the foremost pathways of how climate change impacts our food production systems as well as the social, and economic factors that in the mastery of unbiased food distribution. Likewise, we analyze the research gaps and biases about climate change and food security. Climate change is often responsible for food insecurity issues, not focusing on the fact that food production systems have magnified the climate change process. Provided the critical threats to food security, the focus needs to be shifted to an implementation oriented-agenda to potentially cope with current challenges. Therefore, this review seeks to have a more unprejudiced view and thus interpret the fusion association between climate change and food security by imperatively scrutinizing all factors.
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- Muhammad Shahbaz Farooq
- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China
- National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- College of Agriculture, Oil Crops Research Institute, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), Fuzhou, China
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- National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China
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- Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Yeosu, South Korea
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Tian Z, Wang JW, Li J, Han B. Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture. Plant J 2021; 105:1165-1178. [PMID: 33258137 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.15107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2020] [Revised: 11/22/2020] [Accepted: 11/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply has significantly increased over the past half-century, ~8.9 and 14.3% people are still suffering from hunger and malnutrition, respectively. Agricultural environments are continuously threatened by a booming world population, a shortage of arable land, and rapid changes in climate. To ensure food and ecosystem security, there is a need to design future crops for sustainable agriculture development by maximizing net production and minimalizing undesirable effects on the environment. The future crops design projects, recently launched by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), aim to develop a roadmap for rapid design of customized future crops using cutting-edge technologies in the Breeding 4.0 era. In this perspective, we first introduce the background and missions of these projects. We then outline strategies to design future crops, such as improvement of current well-cultivated crops, de novo domestication of wild species and redomestication of current cultivated crops. We further discuss how these ambitious goals can be achieved by the recent development of new integrative omics tools, advanced genome-editing tools and synthetic biology approaches. Finally, we summarize related opportunities and challenges in these projects.
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- Zhixi Tian
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
- ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 200031, China
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
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- National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China
- ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 200031, China
- National Center for Gene Research, Shanghai, 200233, China
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