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Functional genomics to study stress responses in crop legumes: progress and prospects

Himabindu Kudapa A , Abirami Ramalingam A B , Swapna Nayakoti A , Xiaoping Chen C , Wei-Jian Zhuang D , Xuanqiang Liang C , Guenter Kahl E F , David Edwards G and Rajeev K. Varshney A C H I
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A International Crops Research Institute for the Semiarid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502324, India.

B Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, John St, Hawthorn, Vic. 3122, Australia.

C Crops Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China.

D Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular and Cell Biology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, PR China.

E Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute for Molecular BioSciences, Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany.

F GenXPro GmbH, Frankfurt Biotechnology Innovation Center (FIZ), Altenhöferallee3, Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany.

G School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia.

H School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

I Corresponding author. Email: r.k.varshney@cgiar.org

This paper originates from a presentation at theVI International Conference on Legume Genetics and Genomics (ICLGG)’ Hyderabad, India, 27 October 2012.

Functional Plant Biology 40(12) 1221-1233 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP13191
Submitted: 25 June 2013  Accepted: 22 August 2013   Published: 7 October 2013

Journal Compilation © CSIRO Publishing 2013 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Legumes are important food crops worldwide, contributing to more than 33% of human dietary protein. The production of crop legumes is frequently impacted by abiotic and biotic stresses. It is therefore important to identify genes conferring resistance to biotic stresses and tolerance to abiotic stresses that can be used to both understand molecular mechanisms of plant response to the environment and to accelerate crop improvement. Recent advances in genomics offer a range of approaches such as the sequencing of genomes and transcriptomes, gene expression microarray as well as RNA-seq based gene expression profiling, and map-based cloning for the identification and isolation of biotic and abiotic stress-responsive genes in several crop legumes. These candidate stress associated genes should provide insights into the molecular mechanisms of stress tolerance and ultimately help to develop legume varieties with improved stress tolerance and productivity under adverse conditions. This review provides an overview on recent advances in the functional genomics of crop legumes that includes the discovery as well as validation of candidate genes.

Additional keywords: abiotic and biotic stresses, expression profiling, stress tolerance, transcriptomics.


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