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Epigenome and Epitranscriptome: Potential Resources for Crop Improvement

Crop breeding faces the challenge of increasing food demand, especially under climatic changes. Conventional breeding has relied on genetic diversity by combining alleles to obtain desired traits. In recent years, research on epigenetics and epitranscriptomics has shown that epigenetic and epitransc...

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Autores principales: Hou, Quancan, Wan, Xiangyuan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8658206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34884725
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312912
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description Crop breeding faces the challenge of increasing food demand, especially under climatic changes. Conventional breeding has relied on genetic diversity by combining alleles to obtain desired traits. In recent years, research on epigenetics and epitranscriptomics has shown that epigenetic and epitranscriptomic diversity provides additional sources for crop breeding and harnessing epigenetic and epitranscriptomic regulation through biotechnologies has great potential for crop improvement. Here, we review epigenome and epitranscriptome variations during plant development and in response to environmental stress as well as the available sources for epiallele formation. We also discuss the possible strategies for applying epialleles and epitranscriptome engineering in crop breeding.
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spelling pubmed-86582062021-12-10 Epigenome and Epitranscriptome: Potential Resources for Crop Improvement Hou, Quancan Wan, Xiangyuan Int J Mol Sci Review Crop breeding faces the challenge of increasing food demand, especially under climatic changes. Conventional breeding has relied on genetic diversity by combining alleles to obtain desired traits. In recent years, research on epigenetics and epitranscriptomics has shown that epigenetic and epitranscriptomic diversity provides additional sources for crop breeding and harnessing epigenetic and epitranscriptomic regulation through biotechnologies has great potential for crop improvement. Here, we review epigenome and epitranscriptome variations during plant development and in response to environmental stress as well as the available sources for epiallele formation. We also discuss the possible strategies for applying epialleles and epitranscriptome engineering in crop breeding. MDPI 2021-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8658206/ /pubmed/34884725 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312912 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Epigenome and Epitranscriptome: Potential Resources for Crop Improvement
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title_short Epigenome and Epitranscriptome: Potential Resources for Crop Improvement
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8658206/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms222312912
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