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The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review
The importance of cassava as the fourth largest source of calories in the world requires that contributions of biotechnology to improving this crop, advances and current challenges, be periodically reviewed. Plant biotechnology offers a wide range of opportunities that can help cassava become a bett...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5071364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27818605 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11627-016-9776-3 |
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author | Chavarriaga-Aguirre, Paul Brand, Alejandro Medina, Adriana Prías, Mónica Escobar, Roosevelt Martinez, Juan Díaz, Paula López, Camilo Roca, Willy M Tohme, Joe |
author_facet | Chavarriaga-Aguirre, Paul Brand, Alejandro Medina, Adriana Prías, Mónica Escobar, Roosevelt Martinez, Juan Díaz, Paula López, Camilo Roca, Willy M Tohme, Joe |
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description | The importance of cassava as the fourth largest source of calories in the world requires that contributions of biotechnology to improving this crop, advances and current challenges, be periodically reviewed. Plant biotechnology offers a wide range of opportunities that can help cassava become a better crop for a constantly changing world. We therefore review the state of knowledge on the current use of biotechnology applied to cassava cultivars and its implications for breeding the crop into the future. The history of the development of the first transgenic cassava plant serves as the basis to explore molecular aspects of somatic embryogenesis and friable embryogenic callus production. We analyze complex plant-pathogen interactions to profit from such knowledge to help cassava fight bacterial diseases and look at candidate genes possibly involved in resistance to viruses and whiteflies—the two most important traits of cassava. The review also covers the analyses of main achievements in transgenic-mediated nutritional improvement and mass production of healthy plants by tissue culture and synthetic seeds. Finally, the perspectives of using genome editing and the challenges associated to climate change for further improving the crop are discussed. During the last 30 yr, great advances have been made in cassava using biotechnology, but they need to scale out of the proof of concept to the fields of cassava growers. |
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spelling | pubmed-50713642016-11-03 The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review Chavarriaga-Aguirre, Paul Brand, Alejandro Medina, Adriana Prías, Mónica Escobar, Roosevelt Martinez, Juan Díaz, Paula López, Camilo Roca, Willy M Tohme, Joe In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Plant Invited Review The importance of cassava as the fourth largest source of calories in the world requires that contributions of biotechnology to improving this crop, advances and current challenges, be periodically reviewed. Plant biotechnology offers a wide range of opportunities that can help cassava become a better crop for a constantly changing world. We therefore review the state of knowledge on the current use of biotechnology applied to cassava cultivars and its implications for breeding the crop into the future. The history of the development of the first transgenic cassava plant serves as the basis to explore molecular aspects of somatic embryogenesis and friable embryogenic callus production. We analyze complex plant-pathogen interactions to profit from such knowledge to help cassava fight bacterial diseases and look at candidate genes possibly involved in resistance to viruses and whiteflies—the two most important traits of cassava. The review also covers the analyses of main achievements in transgenic-mediated nutritional improvement and mass production of healthy plants by tissue culture and synthetic seeds. Finally, the perspectives of using genome editing and the challenges associated to climate change for further improving the crop are discussed. During the last 30 yr, great advances have been made in cassava using biotechnology, but they need to scale out of the proof of concept to the fields of cassava growers. Springer US 2016-08-12 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5071364/ /pubmed/27818605 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11627-016-9776-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Invited Review Chavarriaga-Aguirre, Paul Brand, Alejandro Medina, Adriana Prías, Mónica Escobar, Roosevelt Martinez, Juan Díaz, Paula López, Camilo Roca, Willy M Tohme, Joe The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review |
title | The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review |
title_full | The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review |
title_fullStr | The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review |
title_full_unstemmed | The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review |
title_short | The potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review |
title_sort | potential of using biotechnology to improve cassava: a review |
topic | Invited Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5071364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27818605 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11627-016-9776-3 |
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