Genetic enhancement of climate-resilient traits in small millets: A review.

ABSTRACT: Agriculture is facing the challenge of feeding the ever-growing population that is projected to reach ten billion by 2050. While improving crop yield and productivity can address this challenge, the increasing effects of global warming and climate change seriously threaten agricultural productivity. Thus, genomics and genome modification technologies are crucial to improving climate-resilient traits to enable sustained yield and productivity; however, significant research focuses on staple crops such as rice, wheat, and maize. Crops that are naturally climate-resilient and nutritionally superior to staple cereals, such as small millets, remain neglected and underutilized by mainstream research. The ability of small millets to grow in marginal regions having limited irrigation and poor soil

SUBMITTER: Choudhary P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10102230 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature