Omics-Facilitated Crop Improvement for Climate Resilience and Superior Nutritive Value.

ABSTRACT: Novel crop improvement approaches, including those that facilitate for the exploitation of crop wild relatives and underutilized species harboring the much-needed natural allelic variation are indispensable if we are to develop climate-smart crops with enhanced abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, higher nutritive value, and superior traits of agronomic importance. Top among these approaches are the "omics" technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, phenomics, and their integration, whose deployment has been vital in revealing several key genes, proteins and metabolic pathways underlying numerous traits of agronomic importance, and aiding marker-assisted breeding in major crop species. Here, citing several relevant examples, we appraise our understanding o

SUBMITTER: Zenda T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8672198 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature