Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
The current agricultural system is biased for the yield increase at the cost of biodiversity. However, due to the loss of precious genetic diversity during domestication and artificial selection, modern cultivars have lost the adaptability to cope with unfavorable environments. There are many report...
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| author | Seher Yolcu Hemasundar Alavilli Byeong-ha Lee |
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| description | The current agricultural system is biased for the yield increase at the cost of biodiversity. However, due to the loss of precious genetic diversity during domestication and artificial selection, modern cultivars have lost the adaptability to cope with unfavorable environments. There are many reports on variations such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and indels in the stress-tolerant gene alleles that are associated with higher stress tolerance in wild progenitors, natural accessions, and extremophiles in comparison with domesticated crops or model plants. Therefore, to gain a better understanding of stress-tolerant traits in naturally stress-resistant plants, more comparative studies between the modern crops/model plants and crop progenitors/natural accessions/extremophiles are required. In this review, we discussed and summarized recent progress on natural variations associated with enhanced abiotic stress tolerance in various plants. By applying the recent biotechniques such as the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool, natural genetic resources (i.e., stress-tolerant gene alleles) from diverse plants could be introduced to the modern crop in a non-genetically modified way to improve stress-tolerant traits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35dae6e5697d4dfa9506fe366c086ce52023-11-20T20:52:51ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences1661-65961422-00672020-11-012122856710.3390/ijms21228567Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in PlantsSeher Yolcu0Hemasundar Alavilli1Byeong-ha Lee2Department of Life Science, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, KoreaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul 02841, KoreaDepartment of Life Science, Sogang University, Seoul 04107, KoreaThe current agricultural system is biased for the yield increase at the cost of biodiversity. However, due to the loss of precious genetic diversity during domestication and artificial selection, modern cultivars have lost the adaptability to cope with unfavorable environments. There are many reports on variations such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and indels in the stress-tolerant gene alleles that are associated with higher stress tolerance in wild progenitors, natural accessions, and extremophiles in comparison with domesticated crops or model plants. Therefore, to gain a better understanding of stress-tolerant traits in naturally stress-resistant plants, more comparative studies between the modern crops/model plants and crop progenitors/natural accessions/extremophiles are required. In this review, we discussed and summarized recent progress on natural variations associated with enhanced abiotic stress tolerance in various plants. By applying the recent biotechniques such as the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool, natural genetic resources (i.e., stress-tolerant gene alleles) from diverse plants could be introduced to the modern crop in a non-genetically modified way to improve stress-tolerant traits.https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/22/8567genetic diversitystress tolerancenatural variationsnatural accessionsextremophilescrop progenitors |
| spellingShingle | Seher Yolcu Hemasundar Alavilli Byeong-ha Lee Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants International Journal of Molecular Sciences genetic diversity stress tolerance natural variations natural accessions extremophiles crop progenitors |
| title | Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
| title_full | Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
| title_fullStr | Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
| title_short | Natural Genetic Resources from Diverse Plants to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
| title_sort | natural genetic resources from diverse plants to improve abiotic stress tolerance in plants |
| topic | genetic diversity stress tolerance natural variations natural accessions extremophiles crop progenitors |
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