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Current breeding and genomic approaches to enhance the cane and sugar productivity under abiotic stress conditions

3 Biotech volume 10, Article number: 440 (2020) Cite this article

Abstract

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) crop is vulnerable to many abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, waterlogging, cold and high temperature due to climate change. Over the past few decades new breeding and genomic approaches have been used to enhance the genotypic performance under abiotic stress conditions. In sugarcane, introgression of genes from wild species and allied genera for abiotic stress tolerance traits plays a significant role in the development of several stress-tolerant varieties. Moreover, the genomics and transcriptomics approaches have helped to elucidate the key genes/TFs and pathways involved in abiotic stress tolerance in sugarcane. Several novel miRNAs families /proteins or regulatory elements that are responsible for drought, salinity, and cold tolerance have been identified through high-throughput sequencing. The existing sugarcane monoploid genome sequence information opens new gateways and opportunities for researchers to improve the desired traits through efficient genome editing tools, such as the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat-Cas (CRISPR/Cas) system. TALEN mediated mutations in a highly conserved region of the caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) of sugarcane significantly reduces the lignin content in the cell wall which is amenable for biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass. In this review, we focus on current breeding with genomic approaches and their substantial role in enhancing cane production under the abiotic stress conditions, which is expected to provide new insights to plant breeders and biotechnologists to modify their strategy in developing stress-tolerant sugarcane varieties, which can highlight the future demand of cane, bio-energy, and viability of sugar industries.

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We thanks to Department of Science and Technology (DST-SERB, F.No EEQ/2018/000967), Indian Council of Agricultural Research and the Director, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India for facilitating the required inputs. We also acknowledge the competent assistance of staff from ICAR-SBIRC, Karnal for helping in manuscript drafting.

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Meena, M.R., Kumar, R., Chinnaswamy, A. et al. Current breeding and genomic approaches to enhance the cane and sugar productivity under abiotic stress conditions. 3 Biotech 10, 440 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-020-02416-w

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  • Abiotic stresses
  • Sugarcane
  • Genomic strategies
  • microRNA and genome editing