Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair Deficiency

Global climate change, especially when involving drought and salinity, poses a major challenge to sustainable crop production, causing severe yield losses. The environmental conditions are expected to further aggravate crop production in the future as a result of continuous greenhouse gas emissions,...

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Main Authors: Imola Molnár, Lavinia Cozma, Tünde-Éva Dénes, Imre Vass, István-Zoltán Vass, Elena Rakosy-Tican
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Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/8/696
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author Imola Molnár
Lavinia Cozma
Tünde-Éva Dénes
Imre Vass
István-Zoltán Vass
Elena Rakosy-Tican
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Lavinia Cozma
Tünde-Éva Dénes
Imre Vass
István-Zoltán Vass
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description Global climate change, especially when involving drought and salinity, poses a major challenge to sustainable crop production, causing severe yield losses. The environmental conditions are expected to further aggravate crop production in the future as a result of continuous greenhouse gas emissions, causing further temperature rise and leading to increased evapotranspiration, severe drought, soil salinity, as well as insect and disease threats. These suboptimal growth conditions have negative impact on plant growth, survival, and crop yield. Potato is well known as a crop extremely susceptible to drought, which is primarily attributed to its shallow root system. With potato being the fourth major food crop, increasing potato productivity is thus important for food security and for feeding global population. To maintain a sustainable potato production, it is necessary to develop stress tolerant potato cultivars that cope with the already ongoing climate change. The aim of our study is to analyze the response of potato somatic hybrids to drought and salt stress under in vitro conditions; the somatic hybrids studied are the wild relative <i>Solanum chacoense</i> (+) <i>Solanum tuberosum</i>, with or without mismatch repair deficiency (MMR). Upon this selection of drought and salt tolerant genotypes, somatic hybrids and their parents were phenotyped on a semi-automated platform, and lines tolerant to medium water scarcity (20% compared to 60% soil water capacity) were identified. Although none of the parental species were tolerant to drought, some of the MMR-deficient somatic hybrids showed tolerance to drought and salt as a new trait.
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spelling doaj.art-ce3ce86e8bae4e67b83099f77804bd5c2023-11-22T06:22:20ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722021-07-0111869610.3390/agriculture11080696Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair DeficiencyImola Molnár0Lavinia Cozma1Tünde-Éva Dénes2Imre Vass3István-Zoltán Vass4Elena Rakosy-Tican5Plant Genetic Engineering Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaPlant Genetic Engineering Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaBiological Research Center Jibou, Babeș-Bolyai University, 400000 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaInstitute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, 6726 Szeged, HungaryInstitute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, 6726 Szeged, HungaryPlant Genetic Engineering Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaGlobal climate change, especially when involving drought and salinity, poses a major challenge to sustainable crop production, causing severe yield losses. The environmental conditions are expected to further aggravate crop production in the future as a result of continuous greenhouse gas emissions, causing further temperature rise and leading to increased evapotranspiration, severe drought, soil salinity, as well as insect and disease threats. These suboptimal growth conditions have negative impact on plant growth, survival, and crop yield. Potato is well known as a crop extremely susceptible to drought, which is primarily attributed to its shallow root system. With potato being the fourth major food crop, increasing potato productivity is thus important for food security and for feeding global population. To maintain a sustainable potato production, it is necessary to develop stress tolerant potato cultivars that cope with the already ongoing climate change. The aim of our study is to analyze the response of potato somatic hybrids to drought and salt stress under in vitro conditions; the somatic hybrids studied are the wild relative <i>Solanum chacoense</i> (+) <i>Solanum tuberosum</i>, with or without mismatch repair deficiency (MMR). Upon this selection of drought and salt tolerant genotypes, somatic hybrids and their parents were phenotyped on a semi-automated platform, and lines tolerant to medium water scarcity (20% compared to 60% soil water capacity) were identified. Although none of the parental species were tolerant to drought, some of the MMR-deficient somatic hybrids showed tolerance to drought and salt as a new trait.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/8/696drought stresssalt stresspotato somatic hybridprolinephotosynthesis
spellingShingle Imola Molnár
Lavinia Cozma
Tünde-Éva Dénes
Imre Vass
István-Zoltán Vass
Elena Rakosy-Tican
Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair Deficiency
Agriculture
drought stress
salt stress
potato somatic hybrid
proline
photosynthesis
title Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair Deficiency
title_full Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair Deficiency
title_fullStr Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair Deficiency
title_full_unstemmed Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair Deficiency
title_short Drought and Saline Stress Tolerance Induced in Somatic Hybrids of <i>Solanum chacoense</i> and Potato Cultivars by Using Mismatch Repair Deficiency
title_sort drought and saline stress tolerance induced in somatic hybrids of i solanum chacoense i and potato cultivars by using mismatch repair deficiency
topic drought stress
salt stress
potato somatic hybrid
proline
photosynthesis
url https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/8/696
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