The quest for tolerant varieties
- Author(s)
- Michel Zivy, Stefanie Wienkoop, Jenny Renaut, Carla Pinheiro, Estelle Goulas, Sebastien Carpentier
- Abstract
The primary objective of crop breeding is to improve yield and/or harvest quality while minimizing inputs. Global climate change and the increase in world population are significant challenges for agriculture and call for further improvements to crops and the development of new tools for research. Significant progress has been made in the molecular and genetic analysis of model plants. However, is science generating false expectations? Are 'omic techniques generating valuable information that can be translated into the field? The exploration of crop biodiversity and the correlation of cellular responses to stress tolerance at the plant level is currently a challenge. This viewpoint reviews concisely the problems one encounters when working on a crop and provides an outline of possible workflows when initiating cellular phenotyping via "-omic" techniques (transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics).
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- Génétique Quantitative et Évolution - Le Moulon, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Universidade de Lisboa, Université Lille I - Sciences et Technologies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Journal
- Frontiers in Plant Science
- Volume
- 6
- No. of pages
- 11
- ISSN
- 1664-462X
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00448
- Publication date
- 07-2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106013 Genetics, 106023 Molecular biology, 106037 Proteomics, 106031 Plant physiology
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Plant Science
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 13 - Climate Action
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/95e936ee-0604-4879-922a-9af47fc84b10