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Integrative Genomics and System Biology in Field Crops
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Integrative Genomics and System Biology in Field Crops

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Molecular Biology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 3233

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Prof. Dr. Andrea Mastinu

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Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Division of Pharmacology, University of Brescia, 25123 Brescia, Italy
Interests: secondary metabolites; ethnopharmacology; abiotic stress; abiotic stress tolerance; cannabis sativa; cannabaceae; medical marijuana; phytocannabinoids; CB1 receptor; cannabidiol; tetrahydrocannabinol; CB2 receptor; cannabinoids; cannabinoid receptor agonists; cannabinoid receptor antagonists; cannabinoid receptor modulators
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Abiotic stresses are primarily responsible for the production vulnerability of cereals (Poaceae). Human societies increasingly demand high-quality food, but drought, salinity and extreme weather events are affecting the productivity of maize, wheat, barley, oats and rice worldwide. Therefore, genomic approaches combined with systems biology could be a fundamental strategy to improve cereals' resilience for future agriculture. This special issue focuses on cereal crops for human food and animal feed. In particular, we would like to give special attention to all strategies to understand, manage and develop crops resistant to abiotic stresses in the field. Therefore, manuscripts (reviews and research) aimed at, but not limited to, identifying genomic markers integrated with the different levels of biological organization (cellular, tissue, organ) capable of interacting with the external environment (e.g., soil microorganisms) and improving resistance to abiotic stresses will be welcomed.

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Keywords

  • genomic and proteomic analysis
  • epigenetics
  • photosynthesis
  • abiotic stress tolerance
  • secondary metabolites
  • cereal crops
  • maize
  • wheat
  • barley
  • oats
  • rice
  • soil
  • rhizosphere

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A Walk on the Wild Side: Genome Editing of Tuber-Bearing Solanum bulbocastanum
by Aristotelis Azariadis, Olga A. Andrzejczak, Frida M. Carlsen, Ida Westberg, Henrik Brinch-Pedersen, Bent L. Petersen and Kim H. Hebelstrup
Plants 2024, 13(7), 1044; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13071044 - 8 Apr 2024
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Solanum bulbocastanum is a wild diploid tuber-bearing plant. We here demonstrate transgene-free genome editing of S. bulbocastanum protoplasts and regeneration of gene-edited plants. We use ribonucleoproteins, consisting of Cas9 and sgRNA, assembled in vitro, to target a gene belonging to the nitrate and [...] Read more.
Solanum bulbocastanum is a wild diploid tuber-bearing plant. We here demonstrate transgene-free genome editing of S. bulbocastanum protoplasts and regeneration of gene-edited plants. We use ribonucleoproteins, consisting of Cas9 and sgRNA, assembled in vitro, to target a gene belonging to the nitrate and peptide transporter family. Four different sgRNAs were designed and we observed efficiency in gene-editing in the protoplast pool between 8.5% and 12.4%. Twenty-one plants were re-generated from microcalli developed from individual protoplasts. In three of the plants we found that the target gene had been edited. Two of the edited plants had deletion mutations introduced into both alleles, whereas one only had a mutation in one of the alleles. Our work demonstrates that protocols for the transformation of Solanum tuberosum can be optimized to be applied to a wild Solanum species. Full article
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Genomics and Physiology of Chlorophyll Fluorescence Parameters in Hordeum vulgare L. under Drought and Salt Stresses
by Somayyeh Makhtoum, Hossein Sabouri, Abdollatif Gholizadeh, Leila Ahangar, Mahnaz Katouzi and Andrea Mastinu
Plants 2023, 12(19), 3515; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12193515 - 9 Oct 2023
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To map the genomic regions and control chlorophyll fluorescence attributes under normal, salinity-, and drought-stress conditions in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) at the seedling stage, an experiment was conducted in 2019–2020 using 106 F8 lines resulting from the cross between Badia × [...] Read more.
To map the genomic regions and control chlorophyll fluorescence attributes under normal, salinity-, and drought-stress conditions in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) at the seedling stage, an experiment was conducted in 2019–2020 using 106 F8 lines resulting from the cross between Badia × Kavir. Initially, the different chlorophyll fluorescence parameters were evaluated. Under drought stress, the highest decrease was related to REo/CSm (59.56%), and the highest increase was related to dV/dto (77.17%). Also, under salinity stress, the highest decrease was related to Fv/Fo (59.56%), and the highest increase was related to DIo/RC (77.17%). Linkage maps were prepared using 152 SSR polymorphic markers, 72 ISSR alleles, 7 IRAP alleles, 29 CAAT alleles, 27 Scot alleles, and 15 iPBS alleles. The obtained map accounted for 999.2 centi-Morgans (cM) of the barley genome length (92% of the whole barley genome). The results indicated the importance of chromosomes 3, 2, and 7 in controlling ABS/CSm, Area, ETo/CSm, Fm, Fv, and ETo/RC under drought stress. qEToRCD-7, as a major QTL, controlled 18.3% of ETo/RC phenotypic variation under drought stress. Under salinity stress, the regions of chromosomes 2 and 7 (102 cM and 126 cM) controlled the parameters ABS/CSo, Fm, Fo, Fv, TRo/SCo, Area, ETo/CSm, and ETo/CSo. The results showed that chlorophyll fluorescence is an important parameter in the study of drought and salinity effects on barley. This is the first report of the investigation of changes in the genetic structure of quantitative genes controlling the fluorescence parameters associated with barley response to drought and salinity stresses in the Iranian barley RILs population. According to the obtained results, it is possible to use HVPLASC1B and EBmac0713 in normal conditions, ISSR21-2 and ISSR30-4 in drought conditions, and Bmac0047, Scot5-B, CAAT6-C, and ISSR30iPBS2076-4 in saline stress conditions to select genotypes with higher photosynthetic capacity in marker-assisted selection programs. Full article
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