Harnessing the potential of plant transcription factors in developing climate resilient crops to improve global food security: Current and future perspectives
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Crop plants should be resilient to climatic factors in order to feed ever-increasing populations. Plants have developed stress-responsive mechanisms by changing their metabolic pathways and switching the stress-responsive genes. The discovery of plant transcriptional factors (TFs), as key regulators of different biotic and abiotic stresses, has opened up new horizons for plant scientists. TFs perceive the signal and switch certain stress-responsive genes on and off by binding to different cis-regulatory elements. More than 50 families of plant TFs have been reported in nature. Among them, DREB, bZIP, MYB, NAC, Zinc-finger, HSF, Dof, WRKY, and NF-Y are important with respect to biotic and abiotic stresses, but the potential of many TFs in the improvement of crops is untapped. In this review, we summarize the role of different stress-responsive TFs with respect to biotic and abiotic stresses. Further, challenges and future opportunities linked with TFs for developing climate-resilient crops are also elaborated.
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Integrating multi-omics strategies-genomics, proteomics, and phenomics-improves the efficiency of breeding programs aimed at generating climate-resilient crops.
“Moreover, a comprehensive approach that integrates multi-omics strategies—combining genomics, proteomics, and phenomics—has been emphasized to improve the efficiency of breeding programs aimed at generating climate-resilient crops.”
From Emerging applications of gene editing technologies for the development of climate-resilient crops (2025) · cites this paper as Shahzad et al., 2021
The Conclusions and Future perspectives sections advocate genomic studies and breeding tools for climate-resilient crops. Crop improvement techniques and TFs says marker-assisted approaches can save time and labor. The paper does not, however, emphasize integrating genomics, proteomics, and phenomics as a strategy for improving breeding efficiency (searched: multi-omics, proteomics, phenomics). (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredMulti-omics integration allows better understanding of plant responses to abiotic stresses and facilitates identification of novel genetic targets for editing.
“This integration allows for a better understanding of plant responses to abiotic stresses and facilitates the identification of novel genetic targets for editing (Ndlovu, 2020; Shahzad et al., 2021).”
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The Conclusions (page not available) say genome-wide studies of transcription factors have clarified plant stress responses and identified key stress-responsive genes. Future perspectives (page not available) says bioinformatics analysis can identify proteins for targeting with genome-editing tools. The paper does not establish that *multi-omics integration* produces those benefits, so the claimed mechanism is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Shahzad, R., Jamil, S., Ahmad, S., Nisar, A., Amina, Z., Saleem, S., Zaffar Iqbal, M., Muhammad Atif, R., & Wang, X.
- Affiliations
- Ayub Agriculture Research Institute (PK)
- China National Rice Research Institute (CN)
- University of Agriculture Faisalabad (PK)
- Yan'an University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Shahzad, Rahil
- Wang, Xiukang
- Venue
- Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-04
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 2323-2341
- ISSN
- 1319-562X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8071895
- OpenAlex
- W3123383512
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 178
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 10
- FWCI
- 1.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- National Key Research and Development Program of China
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Keywords
- plant transcription factors, climate-resilient crops, abiotic stress, biotic stress, stress response genes, cis-regulatory elements, DREB, bZIP, MYB, NAC, zinc finger, heat shock transcription factor, DOF, WRKY, NF-Y, food security, crop improvement
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