Horticultural crops tackling stresses: genetic and epigenetic alterations

Food is indispensable for fulfilling the nutritional requirements of living beings. The principal source food, nutrition and feed are horticultural commodities. Grains, pulses, fruits, vegetables, flowers, ornamental plants medicinal just a few important horticulture crops that widely grown as cash by farmers to meet these needs. However, eventually, facing major challenges enhance productivity field due changes in environmental conditions. Crops affected many stresses including both biotic well abiotic. Environmental affect overall growth, development, physiology metabolism which leads loss crop quality produce yield. Old approaches decipher mechanism stress management improvement involved with tedious experiments, long breeding programs different cultivation environments. With advancement bioinformatics next-generation sequencing technologies, it has become possible study molecular mechanisms coping stresses. It need hour investigate tolerance economically crops. This area sought attention horticulturists regions under spell alterations climate change. Thus, this review takes up genetic epigenetic aspects high-value fruit vegetable plants.