Genomics-assisted breeding for designing salinity-smart future crops.

ABSTRACT: Climate change induces many abiotic stresses, including soil salinity, significantly challenging global agriculture. Salinity stress tolerance (SST) is a complex trait, both physiologically and genetically, and is conferred at various levels of plant functional organization. As both the sustainability and profitability of agricultural production systems are critically dependent on SST, plant breeders are trying to design and develop salinity-smart crop plants capable of thriving under high salinity conditions. The accessibility of extreme-quality reference genomes for cultivated crops, naturally salinity-smart plants, and crop wild relatives has fast-tracked the discovery of key genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs), marker development, genotyping assays and molecular breeding products

SUBMITTER: Raza A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12310839 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature