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Towards the Development of Climate-Resilient Crops

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Sudden and drastic climate changes are being experienced around the World. Uncertain weather conditions along with increasing population and reducing agriculturally productive land force researchers and plant breeders to look for the development of future crops that are amenable to adaptation to ever-changing environments. The development of such climate-resilient crops is the only hope to sustain global food security in the coming decade. Development of varieties and hybrids that perform only in favorable agro-climatic conditions with high nutrient input led to narrow diverse crops, mostly pure lines, stringently selected for yield, with limited attention to nutrition, and possessing limited geographical adaptation. Challenging climatic conditions are posing a threat to modern cultivars and indicating risks to future crop production and productivity. So, there is an urgent need to develop crops by exploring and exploiting novel alleles from crop germplasm through a genomics approach. Gene Tilling is a proven, fast approach to creating new alleles and diversifying crop germplasm. So, the desired future crop improvement efforts must include plans to exploit new alleles and use a proven molecular breeding approach to pyramid desired alleles and breed new generation high-yielding, nutritious, and climate-resilient crops.

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Abbreviations

BC:

Before Christ

CO2:

Carbon dioxide

EMS:

Ethyl methane sulfonate

FAO:

Food and Agriculture Organisation

IAEA:

International Atomic Energy Agency

RNA:

Ribonucleic acid

TILLING:

Targeting Local Lesion in Genome

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  1. Advanta Enterprises Limited, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Elangovan Mani

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  1. Mahyco Research Centre, Mahyco Private Limited, Jalna, India

    Anjanabha Bhattacharya

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    Vilas Parkhi

  3. Mahyco Research Centre, Mahyco Private Limited, Jalna, India

    Bharat Char

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Mani, E. (2023). Towards the Development of Climate-Resilient Crops. In: Bhattacharya, A., Parkhi, V., Char, B. (eds) TILLING and Eco-TILLING for Crop Improvement. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2722-7_9

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