An Insight into the Abiotic Stress Responses of Cultivated Beets (Beta vulgaris L.)

Yolcu, Seher; Alavilli, Hemasundar; Ganesh, Pushpalatha; Asif, Muhammad; Kumar, Manu; Song, Kihwan

doi:10.3390/plants11010012

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An Insight into the Abiotic Stress Responses of Cultivated Beets (Beta vulgaris L.)

by

Seher Yolcu

^1,*,†

,

Hemasundar Alavilli

^2,*,†

,

Pushpalatha Ganesh

³,

Muhammad Asif

¹,

Manu Kumar

⁴

and

Kihwan Song

^2,*

¹

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul 34956, Turkey

²

Department of Bioresources Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea

³

Department of Plant Biotechnology, M. S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha 761211, India

⁴

Department of Life Science, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dongguk University, Seoul 10326, Korea

^*

Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

^†

These authors contributed equally to this work.

Plants 2022, 11(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010012

Submission received: 6 November 2021 / Revised: 12 December 2021 / Accepted: 14 December 2021 / Published: 23 December 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue What Makes the Life of Stressed Plants a Little Easier? Defense Mechanisms against Adverse Conditions)

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Cultivated beets (sugar beets, fodder beets, leaf beets, and garden beets) belonging to the species Beta vulgaris L. are important sources for many products such as sugar, bioethanol, animal feed, human nutrition, pulp residue, pectin extract, and molasses. Beta maritima L. (sea beet or wild beet) is a halophytic wild ancestor of all cultivated beets. With a requirement of less water and having shorter growth period than sugarcane, cultivated beets are preferentially spreading from temperate regions to subtropical countries. The beet cultivars display tolerance to several abiotic stresses such as salt, drought, cold, heat, and heavy metals. However, many environmental factors adversely influence growth, yield, and quality of beets. Hence, selection of stress-tolerant beet varieties and knowledge on the response mechanisms of beet cultivars to different abiotic stress factors are most required. The present review discusses morpho-physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of cultivated beets (B. vulgaris L.) to different abiotic stresses including alkaline, cold, heat, heavy metals, and UV radiation. Additionally, we describe the beet genes reported for their involvement in response to these stress conditions.

Keywords: beet cultivation; abiotic stress; alkaline; cold; heat; heavy metals; stress tolerance; ultraviolet radiation

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Yolcu, S.; Alavilli, H.; Ganesh, P.; Asif, M.; Kumar, M.; Song, K. An Insight into the Abiotic Stress Responses of Cultivated Beets (Beta vulgaris L.). Plants 2022, 11, 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010012

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Yolcu S, Alavilli H, Ganesh P, Asif M, Kumar M, Song K. An Insight into the Abiotic Stress Responses of Cultivated Beets (Beta vulgaris L.). Plants. 2022; 11(1):12. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010012

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Yolcu, Seher, Hemasundar Alavilli, Pushpalatha Ganesh, Muhammad Asif, Manu Kumar, and Kihwan Song. 2022. "An Insight into the Abiotic Stress Responses of Cultivated Beets (Beta vulgaris L.)" Plants 11, no. 1: 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010012

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Yolcu, S., Alavilli, H., Ganesh, P., Asif, M., Kumar, M., & Song, K. (2022). An Insight into the Abiotic Stress Responses of Cultivated Beets (Beta vulgaris L.). Plants, 11(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11010012

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