Integrated “omics” approaches to sustain global productivity of major grain legumes under heat stress

The Grain Legumes Integrated Project

Using “omics” and integrated multi-omics approaches to guide

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Rubisco activase and wheat productivity under heat-stress conditions.

Rubisco activase (RCA) constrains the photosynthetic potential of plants at high temperatures (heat stress). Endogenous levels of RCA could serve as an important determinant of plant productivity under heat-stress conditions. Thus, in this study, the possible relationship between expression levels of RCA and plant yield in 11 European cultivars of winter wheat following prolonged exposure to he...

Nutrient Content and Nutritional Water Productivity of Selected Grain Legumes in Response to Production Environment

There is a need to incorporate nutrition into aspects of crop and water productivity to tackle food and nutrition insecurity (FNS). The study determined the nutritional water productivity (NWP) of selected major (groundnut, dry bean) and indigenous (bambara groundnut and cowpea) grain legumes in response to water regimes and environments. Field trials were conducted during 2015/16 and 2016/17 a...

Emergence of Omics-approaches for Crop improvement during Abiotic Stress

The change in environmental conditions brings various physiological and biochemical changes in plants, which often prove to be deleterious and tends to change the complete physiology and agronomy of the plant and hence results in crop loss. It became quite important to address the various environmental perturbations frequently addressed as biotic or abiotic stresses coherently so that proper un...