Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms222312912
Keywords
epigenetics; epitranscriptomics; epigenome editing; epitranscriptome engineering; crop improvement
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31900610]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [06500060]
- Beijing Nova Program [Z201100006820114]
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Crop breeding faces challenges due to increasing food demand, but recent studies show that epigenetic and epitranscriptomic diversity can provide additional resources for breeding. By harnessing these through biotechnologies, there is potential for significant crop improvement.
Crop breeding faces the challenge of increasing food demand, especially under climatic changes. Conventional breeding has relied on genetic diversity by combining alleles to obtain desired traits. In recent years, research on epigenetics and epitranscriptomics has shown that epigenetic and epitranscriptomic diversity provides additional sources for crop breeding and harnessing epigenetic and epitranscriptomic regulation through biotechnologies has great potential for crop improvement. Here, we review epigenome and epitranscriptome variations during plant development and in response to environmental stress as well as the available sources for epiallele formation. We also discuss the possible strategies for applying epialleles and epitranscriptome engineering in crop breeding.
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