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Effects of Heat stress and molecular mitigation approaches in orphan legume, Chickpea

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Global warming has an adverse impact on agriculture and food security is in doldrums around the world. A sharp increase in the temperature of earth is expected and may lead to ~ 1.8–4 °C rise in average earth temperature by the year 2100. Thus, heat stress is a critical factor for plant growth development and crop yield. Chickpea, which is an important leguminous crop and rich source of proteins is also a heat sensitive crop but high temperature exceeding 35 °C inhibit its productivity. Climate-smart agriculture seems to be a plausible approach to minimize the drastic effect of climate change on plant’s adaptation. This may help in better selection of tolerant cultivars of chickpea that can be used in breeding programmes for heat stress tolerance in chickpea. Also the biotechnological approaches using candidate genes expressed in transgenics plants may play pivotal role in the production of climate resilient chickpea plants. Some preliminary findings using CAP2, Galactinol synthase genes, proteomic approaches, RNA seq data, stay green traits and –OMICS in general, have proved to be promising. A close collaboration between agronomists, plant physiologists, geneticists, biotechnologists is the pressing need and must be envisioned in order to address heat stress tolerance in chickpea under the prevailing climatic conditions and continuously increasing temperature. In the context of global heat stress and climate change, adaptation and mitigation are the keywords for employing transdisciplinary methodologies with respect to plant growth, development and agronomy.

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    Pragati Kumari

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  4. Department of Biotechnology, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal (Central) University,, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, 246174, India

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Kumari, P., Rastogi, A. & Yadav, S. Effects of Heat stress and molecular mitigation approaches in orphan legume, Chickpea. Mol Biol Rep 47, 4659–4670 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05358-x

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