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Sensing and signalling in plant stress responses: ensuring sustainable food security in an era of climate change

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Title Sensing and signalling in plant stress responses: ensuring sustainable food security in an era of climate change
 
Creator Pareek, Ashwani
Joshi, Rohit
Gupta, Kapuganti Jagadis
Singla-Pareek, Sneh L.
Foyer, Christine
 
Subject climate change
food security
sensing
signalling
stress
 
Description Accepted date: 5 October 2020
‘EMBO India Symposium ‘Sensing and signalling in
plant stress response’ held in New Delhi, India, 15–17
April 2019
Agriculture in the 21stcentury faces multiple challenges from biotic
and abiotic stresses, which impose major constraints on crop yield.
Under field conditions, the combined or sequential occurrence of
environmental stresses poses a serious threat to global food security.
Plants exhibit plasticity in their responses to environmental stresses,
which may be attributed to their genetic and/or epigenetic makeup. One of the major challenges facing plant biology today
concerns how gene regulatory networks function to generate
morphological and adaptive diversity. Gaining a better understanding of the responses of crop plants to environmental stresses
will allow the identification of improved genetic markers to increase
yield stability and enhance productivity over a wide range of growth
conditions. The availability of high-throughput sequencing technologies provides an opportunity to uncover the genetic/epigenetic
basis of plant stress responses and adaptation. Furthermore,
dissection of the molecular mechanisms underlying resilience will
help us understand how plants cope with extreme environmental
conditions, and ultimately lead to the development of climatesmart crops. Understanding the sensing and signalling mechanisms
that plants use to perceive and respond appropriately to stress is
crucial for the development of stress-resistant crops using current
strategies and technologies.
The workshop on which this article is based was supported by
EMBO and DBT-Alliance grant (ies19/03) to AP, SLS-P, JGK and
CF. The authors thank all the participants of the meeting. The
authors further thank the support received from Jawaharlal Nehru
University, National Institute of Plant Genome Research and
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology.
The authors also thank SERB, DBT, and the New Phytologist
Trust for providing financial support. Participation from young
investigators in poster sessions, flash talks and lightning talks is
thankfully acknowledged which provided a scintillating forum to
the meeting.
 
Date 2020-10-13T06:57:50Z
2020-10-13T06:57:50Z
2020
 
Type Article
 
Identifier New Phytologist, 228(3): 823-827
1469-8137
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16893
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.16893
http://223.31.159.10:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/1111
 
Language en_US
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher John Wiley & Sons