Transgenic Breeding Approaches for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Physiological and Biochemical Mechanisms of Abiotic Stress
3. Biotechnology Applied to the Breeding of Abiotic Stress Tolerance
4. Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL)
5. miRNAs in Abiotic Stress Tolerance
6. The Development of Abiotic Stress-Tolerant Crops by CRISPR (Lustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats)/Cas9
7. Transgenic Breeding to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance
7.1. Drought Stress
7.2. Salinity Stress
7.3. Temperature Stresses
7.4. Heavy Metal Stress
8. Recent Progresses in Genome Editing for Crop Improvement
9. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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miRNA | Species | Targeted Genes | Function | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
miR172a | Soybean | SSAC1 | Salt tolerance | [52] |
miR528 | Maize | ZmLAC3, ZmLAC5 | Lignin biosynthesis | [53] |
miR319 | Arabidopsis | TCP4 | Leaf development and hormone biosynthesis and signaling | [54] |
miR171c | Arabidopsis | SCL6-II, SCL6-III, SCL6-IV | Shoot and branching | [55] |
miR319 | Rice | TCP21, JA biosynthesis and signaling-related genes (PLDα1, LOX5, LOX11, CORI1b and CORI2) | Rice ragged stunt virus resistance | [56] |
miR528 | Rice | OsSPL9 | Rice stripe virus resistance | [57] |
miR528 | Rice | OsRFI2 | Flowering time | [58] |
miR156 | Brassica | BrpSPL9-2 | Control heading time | [59] |
miR157b | SPL | Control of various developmental process | [60] | |
miR159 | Arabidopsis | AtMYB | Involved in GA signaling pathway and control programmed cell death and flowering | [61] |
miR393 | Rice | OsAFB2, OsTIR1 | Early flowering, salt and drought stress tolerance | [62] |
miR169 | Arabidopsis | NY-YA2 | Promote flowering and stress tolerance | [63] |
miR171 | Arabidopsis | SPL | Control plant growth and flowering time | [64] |
miR159 | Rice | OsGAMYBLs | Regulate heading | [65] |
miR172 | Maize | ZmTOE1 | Regulate flowering time | [66] |
miR169 | Arabidopsis | PH2 | Abiotic stress response | [67] |
miR159 | Tobacco | GAMYB | Pathogen defense response | [68] |
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Anwar, A.; Kim, J.-K. Transgenic Breeding Approaches for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 2695. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082695
Anwar A, Kim J-K. Transgenic Breeding Approaches for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2020; 21(8):2695. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21082695
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