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Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges
In recent years, a renewed interest in novel crops has been developing due to the environmental issues associated with the sustainability of agricultural practices. In particular, a cover crop, Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz, belonging to the Brassicaceae family, is attracting the scientific community’...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9920110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12030570 |
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author | Ghidoli, Martina Ponzoni, Elena Araniti, Fabrizio Miglio, Daniela Pilu, Roberto |
author_facet | Ghidoli, Martina Ponzoni, Elena Araniti, Fabrizio Miglio, Daniela Pilu, Roberto |
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description | In recent years, a renewed interest in novel crops has been developing due to the environmental issues associated with the sustainability of agricultural practices. In particular, a cover crop, Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz, belonging to the Brassicaceae family, is attracting the scientific community’s interest for several desirable features. It is related to the model species Arabidopsis thaliana, and its oil extracted from the seeds can be used either for food and feed, or for industrial uses such as biofuel production. From an agronomic point of view, it can grow in marginal lands with little or no inputs, and is practically resistant to the most important pathogens of Brassicaceae. Although cultivated in the past, particularly in northern Europe and Italy, in the last century, it was abandoned. For this reason, little breeding work has been conducted to improve this plant, also because of the low genetic variability present in this hexaploid species. In this review, we summarize the main works on this crop, focused on genetic improvement with three main objectives: yield, seed oil content and quality, and reduction in glucosinolates content in the seed, which are the main anti-nutritional substances present in camelina. We also report the latest advances in utilising classical plant breeding, transgenic approaches, and CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing. |
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spelling | pubmed-99201102023-02-12 Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges Ghidoli, Martina Ponzoni, Elena Araniti, Fabrizio Miglio, Daniela Pilu, Roberto Plants (Basel) Review In recent years, a renewed interest in novel crops has been developing due to the environmental issues associated with the sustainability of agricultural practices. In particular, a cover crop, Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz, belonging to the Brassicaceae family, is attracting the scientific community’s interest for several desirable features. It is related to the model species Arabidopsis thaliana, and its oil extracted from the seeds can be used either for food and feed, or for industrial uses such as biofuel production. From an agronomic point of view, it can grow in marginal lands with little or no inputs, and is practically resistant to the most important pathogens of Brassicaceae. Although cultivated in the past, particularly in northern Europe and Italy, in the last century, it was abandoned. For this reason, little breeding work has been conducted to improve this plant, also because of the low genetic variability present in this hexaploid species. In this review, we summarize the main works on this crop, focused on genetic improvement with three main objectives: yield, seed oil content and quality, and reduction in glucosinolates content in the seed, which are the main anti-nutritional substances present in camelina. We also report the latest advances in utilising classical plant breeding, transgenic approaches, and CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing. MDPI 2023-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9920110/ /pubmed/36771654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12030570 Text en © 2023 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/). |
spellingShingle | Review Ghidoli, Martina Ponzoni, Elena Araniti, Fabrizio Miglio, Daniela Pilu, Roberto Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges |
title | Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges |
title_full | Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges |
title_fullStr | Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges |
title_short | Genetic Improvement of Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz: Opportunities and Challenges |
title_sort | genetic improvement of camelina sativa (l.) crantz: opportunities and challenges |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9920110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771654 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants12030570 |
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