Molecular Markers Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops: A Review
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Abiotic Stress Impact on Agricultural Crops
3. DNA Marker Applications for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
3.1. RAPD Marker Analysis for Salinity and Drought Stresses
3.2. Stress Tolerance in Hybrids
3.3. Genetic Diversity Identification under Heat and Frost Stress
4. Mapping of QTL Genes Related to Abiotic Stresses by DNA Markers
4.1. Saltol
4.2. Dehydrin
5. QTL Mapping by DNA Markers
6. Marker-Assisted Selection by SNP Marker
7. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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---|---|---|---|---|
Petunia × atkinsiana | RAPD | Salinity |
| [44] |
D. Don cv. Prism Red. | ISSR | |||
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) | Sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) | Summer stress | Development of sequence-related markers to screen summer stress-resistant plants | [45] |
Perennial grass (Miscanthus sinensis) | SSR | Drought | To formulate SSR markers linked to drought resistance by utilizing transcriptome sequencing | [46] |
Salvia (Salvia miltiorrhiza) | AFLP | Drought |
| [47] |
| ||||
Strawberry Fragaria ananassa Duch.) | Expressed sequence tag (EST) | Drought |
| [48] |
Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) |
| |||
Citrus | Quantitative trait loci (QTL) | Salinity | Genetic evaluation of salt resistance concerning physiological and vegetative characteristics | [49] |
Citrus reshni | ||||
Poncirus trifoliata | ||||
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) | SSR | Salinity |
| [50] |
| ||||
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) | RAPD | Heat |
| [51] |
Sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) |
| |||
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) | Sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) | Heat |
| [52] |
Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) |
| |||
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) | Quantitative trait loci (QTL) | Heat |
| [53] |
| ||||
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Cranz) | Expressed sequence tags–simple sequence repeat (EST–SSR) markers | Drought |
| [54] |
|
Crop | Botanical Name | DNA Marker | No. of QTLs | No. of Chromosomes with QTLs Loci | Objective | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cotton | Gossypium hirsutum | Simple sequence repeats (SSR); |
| [73] | ||
Single strand conformation polymorphic (SSCP) | 14 | 11 |
| [74] | ||
Maize | Zea mays | Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) | 29 | 1, 3, and 5 |
| [75] |
Sorghum | Sorghum bicolor | Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) | 7 | 1 and 2 |
| [76] |
Barley | Hordeum vulgare | Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) | 2 (salt tolerance indices) | 1 and 2 |
| [77] |
Barley | Simple sequence repeats (SSR) | 13 | 4 |
| [78] |
DNA Markers | No. of QTLs Related to Tolerance | Chromosome No. with QTL Loci | Research Objectives | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Simple sequence repeats (SSR) and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) | 3 | 1, 5, 7 |
| [79] |
Simple sequence repeats (SSR), diversity array technology (DarT), gene-based marker for Vrn-A1 | 1 | 5A |
| [80] |
Simple sequence repeats (SSR) | 8 | 2A |
| [81] |
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) | 6 | 7A |
| [82] |
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) | 3 | 3B, 4A, and 5A |
| [83] |
Simple sequence repeats (SSR) | 2 | 8 and 10 |
| [84] |
DNA Markers | No. of QTLs Related to Tolerance | No. of Chromosomes with QTLs Loci | Research Objectives | References |
---|---|---|---|---|
Simple sequence repeats (SSR) | 47 | 1–4 and 6–12 |
| [86] |
Single feature polymorphism, simple sequence repeats (SSR) | 2 | 4 and 10 |
| [87] |
Simple sequence repeats (SSR) | 1 | 3 |
| [88] |
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Younis, A.; Ramzan, F.; Ramzan, Y.; Zulfiqar, F.; Ahsan, M.; Lim, K.B. Molecular Markers Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops: A Review. Plants 2020, 9, 1374. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9101374
Younis A, Ramzan F, Ramzan Y, Zulfiqar F, Ahsan M, Lim KB. Molecular Markers Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops: A Review. Plants. 2020; 9(10):1374. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9101374
Chicago/Turabian StyleYounis, Adnan, Fahad Ramzan, Yasir Ramzan, Faisal Zulfiqar, Muhammad Ahsan, and Ki Byung Lim. 2020. "Molecular Markers Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops: A Review" Plants 9, no. 10: 1374. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9101374