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Metabolomics as a Selection Tool for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops

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Abiotic stresses cause aberrations in plant primary metabolism which alters the cell homeostasis. Plants try to maintain the metabolic homeostasis during stress by modifying the metabolic networks leading to the altered production of metabolites. Metabolites are more closely related to plant phenotype than the transcripts or proteins alone. Metabolomics reflect the overall combination of protein interaction, gene expression, and other plant regulatory mechanisms. Among all—omics methods, metabolomics is the most versatile, since it may be used to directly link to a phenotype, hence it can be a species or genotype specific character. In this chapter, we discuss various abiotic stresses affecting the plants and their metabolic responses specifically associated with stress tolerance. Most of the studies have elucidated the important role played by primary (sugars, amino acids, Proline, Putrescine, Spermine, GABA, Krebs cycle intermediates, etc.) and secondary metabolites (anthocyanins and flavonoids) in stress tolerance. Relative accumulation or non-accumulation of certain metabolites, phenotypic response along with the corresponding data of gene expression provides a way for identification of metabolomic QTLs (mQTLs) and metabolomic-assisted genome wide association study (mGWAS). Rapidly emerging fields of metabolomics, with mGWAS and mQTLs help in better selection of breeding lines and crop improvement programs.

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Prathibha, M.D., Harsha, S.G., Geetha, G.A., Lokesha, A.N., Shivashankara, K.S. (2023). Metabolomics as a Selection Tool for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops. In: Harohalli Masthigowda, M., Gopalareddy, K., Khobra, R., Singh, G., Pratap Singh, G. (eds) Translating Physiological Tools to Augment Crop Breeding. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7498-4_14

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