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Recent Trends in Targeting Genome Editing of Tomato for Abiotic and Biotic Stress Tolerance
Crop genetic modification is in high demand to address the environmental difficulties for agricultural sustainability, particularly in light of the current condition of global climate change and a drop in the ...
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Improvement of small seed for big nutritional feed
Exploding global population, rapid urbanization, salinization of soils, decreasing arable land availability, groundwater resources, and dynamic climatic conditions pose impending damage to our food security by...
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Nutritional Value, In Vitro Regeneration and Development of Transgenic Cucurbita pepo and C. maxima for Stress Tolerance: An Overview
The Cucurbita genus, often called as cucurbits, include several economically important fruits and vegetable crops like cucumber, gourds, squash, watermelon, pumpkin, and melon. Several of the species including Cu...
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Transgenic Tomatoes for Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Fruit Traits: A Review of Progress and a Preview of Potential
Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is the second most important vegetable crop of the world. It is rich in nutrition with zero cholesterol, but highly sensitive to abiotic stresses, especially salt, drought, ...
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Role of Protein Phosphatases in Signaling, Potassium Transport, and Abiotic Stress Responses
Protein phosphatases especially type 2C (PP2C) are unique and highly conserved and play pivotal roles in stress signaling in plants by counter affecting kinases. During potassium (K+) deficiency in the soil as we...
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Overexpression of Sorghum plasma membrane-bound Na+/H+ antiporter-like protein (SbNHXLP) enhances salt tolerance in transgenic groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Soil salinity and water-deficit conditions often affect crop productivity in groundnut. Therefore, develo** transgenic groundnut that can grow under such abiotic stress conditions is crucial to stabilize its...
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An Update on Molecular Strategies of Transgenic Rice Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses
As stalkless in nature, plants always encounter either abiotic or biotic stresses or both all through the life. Abiotic stresses causes severe damage and results in reduced yield. Salt, drought, heat, and cold...
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Genetic engineering for salt and drought stress tolerance in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oil-yielding cash crop as well as an exportable agricultural commodity. It is a rich source of proteins, fats, and plays a crucial role in oilseed economy of India and...
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PSPDB: Plant Stress Protein Database
Plants produce various proteins to overcome biotic and abiotic stresses. Current plant stress databases report plant genes without protein annotations specific to these stresses. To date, according to our find...
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Contribution of Bioinformatics to Gene Discovery in Salt Stress Responses in Plants
Salinity is the major abiotic stress leading to huge losses in crop productivity. Therefore, understanding the regulatory mechanisms and subsequently improving salinity tolerance in plants are important goals ...
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Cloning, characterization and impact of up- and down-regulating subabul cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) gene on plant growth and lignin profiles in transgenic tobacco
Both cDNA including 5′UTR and 3′UTR and genomic clones of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) were isolated and characterized from a pulp-yielding leguminous tree Leucaena leucocephala (LlCAD1). The deduced amin...
