Application of genomics and phenomics in plant breeding for climate resilience
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Advances in the fields of genomics and phenomics are currently creating significant foundations for the sustainable intensification of plant breeding initiatives targeting climate resilience. Genomics is a biological study that focuses on architecture, function, editing, mapping, and evolution of genomes. It can be applied extensively in climate resilience breeding for cost-effective, rapid, and high-through put genotyping, phenotyping, and trait mapping. The efficacy of genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) is strongly hinged on the high resolution and robustness of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and CRISPR/Cas9-based Gene Editing systems. The integration of genomics and phenomics in crop improvement can upscale the efficiency of breeding systems targeting climate resilience and hasten cultivar release cycle. Phenomics is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the enhanced measurement of plant performance, growth, and composition. Similarly, phenomics has revolutionized the efficacy of plant breeding off-trial initiatives established to phenotypically characterize and study diversity levels of collected germplasm. Field phenomics tools such as the phenonet, phenomobile, and phenonetwork have proven to be efficient in capturing large sums of multiscale and multidimensional experimental data. The main purpose of this review article is to present a summarized account of the probable applications of integrated systems of genomics and phenomics in plant breeding for climate resilience in major crops.
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Multi-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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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.”
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- Authors
- Ndlovu, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Zimbabwe (ZW)
- Corresponding author
- Ndlovu, Noel
- ORCID
- Ndlovu, Noel
- Venue
- Asian Plant Research Journal
- Publisher
- Sciencedomain International
- Published
- 2020-11-28
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 53-66
- ISSN
- 2581-9992 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3110613499
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Asian Plant Research Journal (publishedVersion)
- Asian Plant Research Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Keywords
- genomics-assisted breeding, phenomics, plant breeding, climate resilience, crop improvement, next-generation sequencing, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, high-throughput genotyping, high-throughput phenotyping, trait mapping, germplasm characterization, sustainable intensification
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