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Biotechnological interventions for improving the seed longevity in cereal crops: progress and prospects

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07388551.2022.2027863
https://doi.org/10.1080/07388551.2022.2027863
 
Title Biotechnological interventions for improving the seed longevity in cereal crops: progress and prospects
 
Creator Choudhary, P
Pramitha, L
Aggarwal, P R
Rana, S
Vetriventhan, M
Muthamilarasan, M
 
Subject Cereals
Sustainable Agriculture
Food Security
 
Description Seed longevity is a measure of the viability of seeds during long-term storage and is crucial for germplasm conservation and crop improvement programs. Also, longevity is an important trait for ensuring food and nutritional security. Thus, a better understanding of various factors regulating seed longevity is requisite to improve this trait and to minimize the genetic drift during the regeneration of germplasm. In particular, seed deterioration of cereal crops during storage adversely affects agricultural productivity and food security. The irreversible process of seed deterioration involves a complex interplay between different genes and regulatory pathways leading to: loss of DNA integrity, membrane damage, inactivation of storage enzymes and mitochondrial dysfunction. Identifying the genetic determinants of seed longevity and manipulating them using biotechnological tools hold the key to ensuring prolonged seed storage. Genetics and genomics approaches had identified several genomic regions regulating the longevity trait in major cereals such as: rice, wheat, maize and barley. However, very few studies are available in other Poaceae members, including millets. Deploying omics tools, including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics, and integrating the datasets will pinpoint the precise molecular determinants affecting the survivability of seeds. Given this, the present review enumerates the genetic factors regulating longevity and demonstrates the importance of integrated omics strategies to dissect the molecular machinery underlying seed deterioration. Further, the review provides a roadmap for deploying biotechnological approaches to manipulate the genes and genomic regions to develop improved cultivars with prolonged storage potential.
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis
 
Date 2022-04-20
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights cc_by_nc_nd
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/12407/1/Critical%20Reviews%20in%20Biotechnology_43_2_309-325_2023.pdf
Choudhary, P and Pramitha, L and Aggarwal, P R and Rana, S and Vetriventhan, M and Muthamilarasan, M (2022) Biotechnological interventions for improving the seed longevity in cereal crops: progress and prospects. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 43 (2). pp. 309-325. ISSN 0738-8551