Conventional and Omics Approaches for Understanding the Abiotic Stress Response in Cereal Crops—An Updated Overview

Cereals have evolved various tolerance mechanisms to cope with abiotic stress. Understanding the abiotic stress response mechanism of cereal crops at the molecular level offers a path to high-yielding and stress-tolerant cultivars to sustain food and nutritional security. In this regard, enormous progress has been made in the omics field in the areas of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Omics approaches generate a massive amount of data, and adequate advancements in computational tools have been achieved for effective analysis. The combination of integrated omics and bioinformatics approaches has been recognized as vital to generating insights into genome-wide stress-regulation mechanisms. In this review, we have described the self-driven drought, heat, and salt stress-responsive mechanisms that are highlighted by the integration of stress-manipulating components, including transcription factors, co-expressed genes, proteins, etc. This review also provides a comprehensive catalog of available online omics resources for cereal crops and their effective utilization. Thus, the details provided in the review will enable us to choose the appropriate tools and techniques to reduce the negative impacts and limit the failures in the intensive crop improvement study.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Plants

• Publication date

  2022-10-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3390/plants11212852PMID 36365305PMCID 9655223
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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