Crop DesignPub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2023.100027
Avinash Sharma , Himanshu Pandey , V.S. Devadas , Bhagya D. Kartha , Amit Vashishth
{"title":"Phytoremediation, stress tolerance and bio fortification in crops through soilless culture","authors":"Avinash Sharma , Himanshu Pandey , V.S. Devadas , Bhagya D. Kartha , Amit Vashishth","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2023.100027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropd.2023.100027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Crop improvement through soilless cultivation opens up challenges of crop breeding, plant tissue culture and gene manipulation. The plant growing in soilless culture in a closed system, vertical farming, and protected cultivation under controlled climatic factors has immense potential for crop improvement in different aspects of phytoremediation, stress tolerance and bio fortification. The water-based culture and substrate-based culture induce classified stress tolerance in crops such as disease stress, water stress, salt stress under controlled climatic factors and can also be utilized to develop bio fortified crops. The scope and possibilities of crop improvement through water-based culture and substrate-based culture with respect to phytoremediation, stress tolerance, bio fortification, mechanisms of crop improvement and the challenges in crop improvement through soilless culture are reviewed in this paper. The soilless culture has enormous tools to combat problem of crop improvement and call for soilless green revolution. The comparative and non-comparative investigations of metabolomics, phenomics, genomics and proteomics, Donald concept-plant ideotype and Mendel theory-oligogenic and polygenic inheritance are essential to examine in natural & artificial system through soilless crop improvement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"2 1","pages":"Article 100027"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49709584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100015
Weiran Li , Yuchan Zhang , Md. Anisur Rahman Mazumder , Ronghui Pan , Delara Akhter
{"title":"Research progresses on rice leaf color mutants","authors":"Weiran Li , Yuchan Zhang , Md. Anisur Rahman Mazumder , Ronghui Pan , Delara Akhter","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rice leaf color variation is a morphological phenotype that is valuable in studying plant metabolism and physiology. Besides, the rice leaf color phenotype can also be utilized in the breeding process. Rice plants with color mutations typically have less efficient photosynthesis, which can result in poor growth and yield reduction. Studies of rice leaf color mutants have led to important findings about the metabolic and regulatory mechanisms of pigment synthesis and accumulation, chloroplast biogenesis and differentiation, photosynthesis, stress response, etc. In this mini-review, we summarized the current progress in the identification and study of rice leaf color mutants, and we also discussed on the limitations and perspectives of the current research about these rice leaf color mutants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100015"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000155/pdfft?md5=9acef6479f10e084755678ee0e65b80b&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000155-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89264946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100014
K. Nandhini , R. Saraswathi , N. Premalatha
{"title":"Identification of drought tolerant entries based on stress tolerant indices and physiological traits in RIL population of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum)","authors":"K. Nandhini , R. Saraswathi , N. Premalatha","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present investigation was taken up in a recombinant inbred population of cotton at advanced stage (F<sub>10</sub>) derived from the cross MCU 5 x TCH 1218 in order to identify drought tolerance lines based on stress tolerant indices and physiological traits. To achieve these objectives, 220 recombinant inbred lines, parents and check KC3 were evaluated across two locations <em>viz.,</em> Coimbatore and Aruppukottai in a randomized block design with two replications during Kharif 2018 and stress tolerant indices were estimated from single plant yield under both locations while physiological traits were recorded at rainfed condition alone.</p><p>Based on different multivariant analyses, 18 RILs <em>viz.,</em> RIL 16, 20, 60, 71, 73, 74, 116, 131, 134, 137, 139, 143, 146, 147, 148, 149, 164 and 168 were identified as best performers under rainfed condition for yield traits which also exhibited lowest mean rank for physiological traits. Among these entries, RIL 74 and RIL 73 had low percentage of injury and high relative water content respectively. Association analysis revealed that tolerance index, yield reduction ratio, stress tolerance index and stress susceptibility index were significant and positively correlated among themselves. Negative correlation was noticed for yield under stress (YS) with tolerance index (TOL), yield reduction ratio (Yr) and stress susceptibility index (SSI). So, these indices are used to identify the susceptible genotypes, while remaining indices exhibit significant and positive association with yield under stress and normal condition. This implies remaining traits are used to discriminate tolerant genotypes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100014"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000143/pdfft?md5=7f3b62bb60fbe45493324053818f3a32&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000143-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80385543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100013
Zhong-Hua Chen
{"title":"Unveiling novel genes in Fern genomes for the design of stress tolerant crops","authors":"Zhong-Hua Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ferns are the second largest vascular plant lineage after angiosperms, shaping the plant biodiversity on our planet for more than 360 million years. Understanding the biological function of fern genes and their potential uses for agriculture, environment and health has been hampered by the lack of high-quality genome sequence of fern. The last five years have seen the assembly of reference fern genomes of <em>Salvinia cucullata</em> (0.26 Gb, n = 9), <em>Azolla filiculoides</em> (0.75 Gb, n = 22), <em>Adiantum capillus-veneris</em> (4.83 Gb, n = 30), <em>Alsophila spinulosa</em> (6.27 Gb, n = 69) and <em>Ceratopteris richardii</em> (7.46 Gb, n = 39). These high-quality genome sequences will make significant contribution to the better understanding of evolution, ecology, functional genomics, and the diverse applications of ferns. Here, I review the physiological and some aspects of limited molecular mechanisms of abiotic (mainly heavy metal, drought, and shade) and biotic (pests and pathogens) tolerance in different fern species. The potential use of the fern genome toward crop abiotic and biotic stress tolerance is suggested. Thus, deciphering the genetic diversity and novel functional genes of ferns will provide tremendous boost to the knowledge advancement and the biotechnological applications of unique fern genes and proteins for sustainable agricultural production and environmental protection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000131/pdfft?md5=6d7399948e878d9a66113a89971b3ed3&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000131-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79213701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100017
Bo Bi , Wei Li , Yushu Jiang , Hao Du
{"title":"Present and future prospects of crop synthetic biology","authors":"Bo Bi , Wei Li , Yushu Jiang , Hao Du","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Affected by the explosion of the world's population, climate changes and resource depletion, crop design and utilization call for revolution. Alongside the rapid development of plant genomics, metabolomics, and new techniques, synthetic biology has now expanded from single-celled microbes to complex plant systems. Thus, much progress has been made in agriculture to meet the increasing demands for food, medicine, and energy. Here we reviewed the successful applications in crop synthetic biology, including crop production, nutrient quality, stress resistance, natural products, and biomedical. At last, we will discuss the challenges and future prospects in crop synthetic biology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100017"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000179/pdfft?md5=3b3558f6be94df7e31fdef7e94632bbc&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000179-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87379820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100016
Yu-xin Yan , Xiao-yan Zhang , Yuan-yuan Tan , Jian-zhong Huang , Ljupcho Jankuloski , Qing-yao Shu
{"title":"Establishment of an artificial inoculation system for the efficient induction of rice bakanae disease","authors":"Yu-xin Yan , Xiao-yan Zhang , Yuan-yuan Tan , Jian-zhong Huang , Ljupcho Jankuloski , Qing-yao Shu","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bakanae disease, mainly caused by <em>Fusarium fujikuroi</em>, can lead to yield losses ranging from 10 to 20%. The lack of systematic researches on efficient propagation of pathogenic <em>F. fujikuroi</em>, artificial inoculation technology and the pathogenic conditions presents a critical technological gap that has severely hampered research on rice resistance to bakanae disease. This study first explored the sporulation conditions of <em>F. fujikuroi</em> in mung bean liquid medium, and determined that <em>F. fujikuroi</em> cultured in 40 g/L mung bean liquid medium for 2–6 days could efficiently produce pathogenic spores in large quantity. On this basis, we further establish an artificial inoculation system to induce bakanae disease. The main steps and parameters include: Soak rice seeds in a <em>F. fujikuroi</em> spore solution with a concentration of 1 × 10<sup>6</sup> conidia/mL for 2 days; let imbibed seeds germinate, and choose germinating seeds with buds of a grain length and cultivate them on half strength MS medium (1/2 MS, pH 5.8–6.8) for about a week. The characteristic bakanae symptoms of excessively elongated seedlings could thus be induced. Furthermore, we found that the bakanae disease symptoms became more profound when a small amount of PDA (0.5%) was added to 1/2 MS medium. Hence our study established a technical system for the artificial induction of bakanae disease involving the use of mung bean medium for rapid propagation of <em>F. fujikuroi</em> spores, seed inoculation and cultivation of seedlings in 1/2 MS medium added with 0.5% PDA. This system will enable quick assessment of bakanae disease resistance and thus will be useful for rice breeding.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 2","pages":"Article 100016"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000167/pdfft?md5=fc953add0dd0882be1b9ae60d48e36b1&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000167-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84774338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.03.001
San-Ling Wu , Yuan-Yuan Tan , Yang Zhao , Long-Jiang Fan , Qi-Kang Gao , Angharad M.R. Gatehouse , Qing-Yao Shu
{"title":"CTREP-finder: A web service for quick identification and visualization of clean transgenic and genome-edited plants","authors":"San-Ling Wu , Yuan-Yuan Tan , Yang Zhao , Long-Jiang Fan , Qi-Kang Gao , Angharad M.R. Gatehouse , Qing-Yao Shu","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To feed 10 billion people in 30 years from now will heavily depend on new higher yield, yet safe, biotech crop varieties, which are developed using biotechnologies, particularly genetic transformation and genome editing. A clean transgenic plant (CTP) contains only the defined transgene, whilst a clean edited plant (CEP) is transgene-free. Currently, it is difficult and time-consuming to identify and locate transgenes within plant genomes due to the complex nature of transfer DNA (T-DNA) or plasmid backbone integration, which has led to a major obstacle in mass scale production of clean transgenic/edited plants (CTREPs). Here we have built a web-based portal, CTREP-finder, for fast detection, characterization and visualization of foreign DNA fragments in plants, based on next-generation whole genome sequencing data. We invented a novel bioinformatics strategy to handle three scenarios of transgene integration and successfully identified CTREPs by testing 132 samples. Furthermore, we compared the CTREP-finder with three public programs, FED, transgeneR and TDNAscan, and it showed that the CTREP-finder outperforms those programs particularly on the localization of transgene integration. The use of CTREP-finder needs little requirement for bioinformatics expertise. Therefore, it is a user-friendly web-based portal that could be used by plant breeders and regulatory agencies for the rapid selection/detection of CTREPs for crop breeding and production.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100003"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000039/pdfft?md5=0c122e3eeb7bfa7566d2a94bf9d90647&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000039-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78199492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100004
Fan Zhang , Liang Zhang , Lijun Xie, Shiyong Song
{"title":"New windows of crop breeding: FTIPs-mediated protein trafficking in plant reproduction and stress tolerance","authors":"Fan Zhang , Liang Zhang , Lijun Xie, Shiyong Song","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100004"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000040/pdfft?md5=0fac4d04dee661230be6cdf1d683d865&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000040-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86838405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Crop DesignPub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100006
Zhiwen Chen , Jianguo Zhao , Junfeng Cao , Yongyan Zhao , Jinquan Huang , Zishou Zheng , Weijia Li , Shang Jiang , Jun Qiao , Baoyan Xing , Jin Zhang
{"title":"Opportunities for graphene, single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotube applications in agriculture: A review","authors":"Zhiwen Chen , Jianguo Zhao , Junfeng Cao , Yongyan Zhao , Jinquan Huang , Zishou Zheng , Weijia Li , Shang Jiang , Jun Qiao , Baoyan Xing , Jin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cropd.2022.100006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nanotechnology is an important driver leading to the revolution in the fields of agriculture. Here, we presented insights into the application of carbon nanomaterials (single- and multi-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene) in biomolecule delivery for crop breeding. We also reviewed the application of graphene to biosensors and the utilization efficiency of water, fertilizers and insecticides in agriculture to better manage environmental stresses. Finally, potential molecular interaction mechanisms between graphene and plant roots were discussed. It can be expected that carbon nanomaterials will hold strong promise in developing a more efficient agricultural production system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100341,"journal":{"name":"Crop Design","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100006"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772899422000064/pdfft?md5=8063f5060ddbec15a024734f282f1ef7&pid=1-s2.0-S2772899422000064-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84903840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}