Carbohydrates and genetic factors influence cell division in citrus fruits from ovule cultures. Here, we investigated the effects of various carbohydrate sources (sorbitol, maltose, galactose, and lactose) on cell proliferation, somatic embryogenesis, and plant regeneration in three
Cotton is a globally important fiber crop, but many elite cultivars are recalcitrant to in vitro regeneration. We developed a callus-mediated plant regeneration protocol for the local
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Salicylic acid (SA) is a plant hormone that has a significant role in many biochemical processes involved in cotton plant resistance against biotic and abiotic stress factors. Exogenous SA has been shown to have effects on plant growth and development, resistance to fungi and insects, and mitigation of abiotic stress factors. Treating cotton seedlings or plants with SA in a culture medium or spraying them with SA has enabled scientists to identify genes responsible for this chemical, associated with several biological functions. SA has been established as part of the defense system in cotton plants: antifungal resistance and insect resistance. Besides, it is a part of plant growth and development as well as fiber development. Identifying SA-responsive genes and understanding their roles in plant resistance enables the development of stress-resistant genotypes. This paper reviews scientific data resulting from the treatment of cotton plants with exogenous SA. In the first section, we discussed antifungal resistance-related data linked to SA treatment, which makes up the highest content of the review. We highlighted its significant role in cotton plant antifungal resistance. The second section deals with SA-responsive genes and metabolites linked with insect resistance. In the third section, we reviewed SA-responsive genes and enzymes associated with cotton plant growth and development. The scientific data regarding SA-linked cotton fiber development have been discussed in the last section. In summary, we discussed SA-responsive genes, proteins, and metabolites that could be used to develop genotypes with enhanced traits.
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This research attempted to validate novel molecular markers linked to high antioxidant traits using an F2 population and a local Thai rice population. We performed total flavonoid content, total phenolic content (TPC), and ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP) assays to assess the antioxidant capacities of rice populations. In the F2 (“Pathum Thani 1”דHawm Mali Daeng”) population, these traits exhibited a quantitative distribution with high heritability (82.7%–98.3%) and high genetic advance (66%–94%). In validation using 10 molecular markers,
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This study evaluates the phenolic content, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties of hydro-ethanolic extracts from six medicinal and aromatic plants in Morocco:
The genetic control of rice resistance has been extensively studied, but how the resistance mechanism is genetically controlled has received less attention. This study revealed that the rice resistance mechanism toward brown planthopper was genetically controlled by several genes with several mendelian patterns. The tolerance mechanism is controlled by three complementary genes; this is confirmed by QTL analysis, whereas the Antibiosis is controlled by three separate loci on chromosomes 2, 8, and 11. The antixenosis was controlled by polygenic, but detected locus only on chromosome 3, with minor effects.
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Foxglove aphid (FA),
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Hops are dioecious, with only female plants cultivated for resin production and primarily used in brewing. Therefore, early sex identification at the seedling stage is crucial for breeding and cultivation. Molecular marker-assisted selection facilitates rapid and reliable sex identification of hops. We developed molecular male markers by leveraging sequence information from male-specific regions in a designated public database. To assess the accuracy of sex identification using the newly generated markers, we performed PCR analysis on four cultivars of hops with known sexes. Seventy-eight percent of the tested PCR primers correlated with the male sex phenotype. Following optimization, four primer pairs were successfully converted into male-specific PCR markers.
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) were used in many previous studies for increasing plant growth and productivity. Some mechanisms were used to enhance the soil productivity such as mineral phosphate solubilization, siderophore production, biological nitrogen fixation, induced systemic resistance and indole acetic acid (IAA) production. Some of the related researches adopted the phosphate solubilization in organisms which was repressed in the presence of succinate resembling the phenomenon of catabolite repression. In addition, the sugar utilization pattern (monosaccharide, disaccharide, and trisaccharide), organisms showed the characteristics like slow and fast-growing rhizobia respectively. Whole-genome sequencing has been used for identifying unique genes in Fast-growing Rhizobia. Existing literature in PGPR studies has been considered and mechanisms for increasing plant growth and productivity have been identified. The review tries to analyse the mechanism of phosphate solubilization and sugar utilization in fast growing Rhizobia. On the contrary, repression due to various carbon sources such as succinate has been reported, leading to succinate mediated catabolite repression.
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The detection of the presence and expression of transgenes in genetically modified plants is a key step in the process of selecting promising lines. We adapted two methods developed for detecting tolerance to the herbicide imazapyr for selection of transgenic lines expressing the mutated acetohydroxyacid synthase enzyme (AHAS) from
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Plant breeders have accumulated hybrid effects to increase food production in order to counteract the loss of arable land. Hybrids may possess novel genetic potential to increase agricultural productivity; however, the relationships between genetic resources for optimizing crop productivity remain mostly unclear. In this study, we recorded heterosis effects of genetically inherited traits by reciprocal hybridization of the
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First initiation of breeding started thousands of years ago when human practiced selection based in visually appealing traits. Further, domestication of wild plants eased adaptation of plant breeding. With increase in population the demand for food also increased which resulted in development of various breeding methodologies. Conventional breeding is a selective breeding methodology where crops are selected based on superior performances. Pure-line selections, mass selection, back cross breeding, recurrent selection, hybridization were most famous traditional breeding methods. It is a longer breeding method and is over-dependent on phenotype of plants. However, phenotypes of a plant are affected by various externalities. So, selection based on phenotypic expression is not accurate. As a result, breeder started integrating various branches of biology in plant breeding and developed modern breeding practices. After Mendelian theory and identification of DNA and RNA, plant breeding diverted to molecular era. People started breeding based on less environmentally susceptible parameters like genotypes, visual and genetic markers, image analysis and loci mapping. Some of the most common modern breeding practices include genomic selection, markers assisted breeding, high throughput phenotyping and CRISPR-Cas9. Despite these, plant breeding has fired up the problems of gene erosion due to loss of local landraces and wild-type plants.
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Pathogens are the major causes of wheat crop yield losses, including the fungus
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Drought is one of the major abiotic factors that have a serious effect on the production of cereals crops including maize, which is grown widely in the world. Screening based on drought facilitates selection of inbred lines and an understanding of drought-tolerant traits. The effect of drought stress and rescue after stress on maize inbred lines was investigated in this study. Different plant growth attributes namely plant height, leaf area and weight, stem weight, root length, shoot and root fresh and dry weight, and total leaf chlorophyll content were measured. Six flint inbred lines (FLD 12, FLD 23, FLD 24, FLD 33, FLD 35, and FLD 37) were screened as drought-tolerant lines, whereas another six flint inbred lines (FLD 01, FLD 13, FLD 16, FLD 18, FLD 29, and FLD 31) were screened as drought susceptible lines. Growth attributes under different drought conditions were subjected to a correlation test and analysis of variance and showed highly significant relationships with each other. The drought effect differed with different inbred lines, indicating a wide variability of drought response at the early growth stage of maize plants. The results obtained from this study will be useful for selecting maize inbred lines in future breeding programs for enhancing drought tolerance.
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Cherry tomatoes are highly nutritious, flavory with a pleasant taste and are becoming increasingly popular to the consumers. The cherry tomato cv. ‘Minichal’ produced some dwarf plants along with normal plants. Lignin, a phenolic biopolymer is the key component of cell walls in plants. Here, we analyzed lignin biosynthesis-related genes in leaves, inflorescences and fruits of dwarf and normal cherry tomato plants by reverse-transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Among analyzed genes,
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A two-year factorial arranged field experiment in randomized complete block design with three replications was carried out in 2014 and 2015 at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Teaching and Research Farm, Umudike (latitude 05° 29′N; longitude 07° 33′E; altitude 122 m above sea level), Nigeria. The
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s were to assess growth and yield response of twenty newly released cowpea genotypes to different planting dates (July, August and September). Plant height, number of leaves/plant, number of branches/plant, shoot biomass, total dry matter, number of nodules/plant, weight of pod, number of seeds/pod, seed weight/pod and grain yield varied amongst the genotypes and across the different planting dates in both years. The association between grain yield and other variables analysed across both years was significant and positive except 100-seed weight and the phenological characters of the plant. Path coefficients analysis across two years indicated that seed weight/pod followed by number of branches/plant and number of seeds/pod had positive direct effect on grain yield of cowpea in contrast to characters that exhibited negative but direct effect on yield. The other traits had relatively negligible to low indirect effects that were positive through other component traits. The grain yield sequence of interaction between genotype and date of planting was in this order: IT06K-141 planted in July > IT11K-61-82 planted in September > IT99K-573-1-1 planted in August. IT06K-141 genotype was considered to be better endowed genetically while the mean across both years indicated August as appropriate planting date to ensure high and sustainable grain yield.
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AT-hook proteins of plant have shown to be involved in growth and development through the modification of chromatin architecture to co-regulate transcription of genes. Recently, many genes encoding AT-hook protein have been identified and their involvement in senescence delay is investigated. In this study, soybean transgenic plants overexpressing chromatin architecture-controlling
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Low temperature stress at the seedling stage of rice is an important factor causing the leaf discoloration, wilting and consequently leads to non-uniform crop maturation. In order to screen the cold tolerance elite lines efficiently, the five cold treatment conditions with different water and air temperature were designed and treated at seedling stage. For the evaluation of seedling tolerance, the injury was scored by visual rate and measured by Soil and Plant Analyzer Development (SPAD) meter. In the reactions of varieties for each treatment, the treatment ‘B’ condition, 12ºC mean water with 24ºC mean air, shows clear discoloration, so it’s correlation coefficient was highest (r=−0.9,
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Plant breeding programs are often used to improve varieties through creating diverse agronomic traits. During a breeding program, a lot of genetic diversities are created in the genome after different generations through homologous recombination. Genome sequencing technology has revolutionized the discovery of genes and molecular markers associated with diverse agronomic traits in crop improvement programs. Genomic research is now in the peak of success, thus creating new opportunities for crop improvement modern sequencing technology is now capable of sequencing thousands to millions of bases per run. Modern sequencing technologies enable the sequencing of different cultivars with small to complex genomes at a reasonable time and cost. These massive data can be used to identify important agronomic traits of crops such as fruit color, size, ripening, flowering time adaptation, grain yield, and quality maintenance. In addition, they can be used to develop crop varieties. This mini-review is focused on the role of genome sequencing in genomic research and plant breeding for crop improvements.
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The rise of whole genome sequences of different plants provided more understanding about the gene regulation and genome evolution in further studying plants. More and more pathways and networks are identified by novel gene discoveries. Therefore, the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXIV) provides a good venue to share the recent progress in the area of plant research genome sequencing technologies in various plants. However, this information can make a powerful system for developing improved crop varieties. By the way, the genome annotation and assembly is an essential key for breeding of stress-tolerant plants. PAG XXIV demonstrated different works about the extensive use of genomic databases accompanied by bioinformatics tools to accelerate breeding methods, discovery of new approaches to genomics, further increasing biomass of bioenergy crops, and explaining the genetic mechanisms in plant growth and defense. This review article summarizes some of the researches in various plants of rice, corn, wheat, cottonwood, switchgrasses,
Increasing demand for food commodities and energy supply highlight the necessity to further improve crop productivity. At the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXIV), recent developments and future plans for genomics research of plants and animals were presented. PAG XXIV provided a forum to explore crop genomes with the aim of providing new opportunities for crop breeding and the foundation for functional genomic studies to improve agriculture production and help feed the growing population. Genetic diversity and population structure studies of crops have allowed us to explore alleles related to different characteristics important for plant breeding. Several useful databases were introduced in PAG XXIV. They were developed to integrate a growing set of commonly used data types and analysis tools with new capabilities for visualization, exploration, and predictive analysis. This review highlights the global trends in plant genomics presented at PAG XXIV by focusing on crop productivity.
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Through high throughput shotgun proteomics approach, the proteome of seedling leaf of
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This study aimed to establish a positive selection system for the genetic transformation of cauliflower using the phosphomannose isomerase (PMI) gene. PMI catalyzes the reversible interconversion of mannose 6-phosphate and fructose 6-phosphate. Thus, only plant cells transformed with the PMI gene can survive on synthetic medium containing mannose as a carbon source. Cotyledon explants from 6-day-old seedlings were infected with
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DNA methylation is a common and rapid evolving epigeneticmechanism among higher eukaryotic organisms including cytosine residues in CG and CNG sequences.
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Studies were initiated for two consecutive years to examine the effects of transplanting date on the yield and quality of early maturing rice cultivars and to select rice cultivars capable of adapting to early transplanting in the middle plain area. The experiment was laid out in a split-plot design with 3 replications. The main plots consisted of two transplanting dates viz. early (25th of April) and ordinary (25th of May), with sub-plots containing eight cultivars. For early transplanting the mean temperature at the grain filling stage was lower than for ordinary transplanting, while the rice grain quality traits and palatability values were improved. Early transplanting results in 11 days earlier heading, higher head rice yield and lower milled rice yield than ordinary transplanting. Significant differences among the eight cultivars tested in this study were observed for most traits. Among cultivars, ‘Joami’ demonstrated the highest palatability. ‘Joami’ also performed better in head rice ratio and head rice yield than ‘Unkwang’, which is widely cultivated in the middle plain area. Palatability value (PV) showed significant positive correlations with head rice ratio (HR) and amylose content (AC), and negative correlations with chalky rice ratio (CR) and protein content (PC). Mean temperature (MT) was positively correlated with CR and PC, and negatively correlated with HR and AC. The highest positive and negative correlations among the rice quality traits were observed between HR and AC (r = 0.734), and HR and CR (r = −0.944), respectively. Based on the research findings, ‘Joami’ is suitable for early transplanting for cultivation in the Chungnam plain area.
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