Allele Mining Through TILLING and EcoTILLING Approaches in Vegetable Crops

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Journal Planta

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Jun 13

PMID 37311932

Authors

Raman Selvakumar

Gograj Singh Jat

Dalasanuru Chandregowda Manjunathagowda

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Abstract

The present review illustrates a comprehensive overview of the allele mining for genetic improvement in vegetable crops, and allele exploration methods and their utilization in various applications related to pre-breeding of economically important traits in vegetable crops. Vegetable crops have numerous wild descendants, ancestors and terrestrial races that could be exploited to develop high-yielding and climate-resilient varieties resistant/tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses. To further boost the genetic potential of economic traits, the available genomic tools must be targeted and re-opened for exploitation of novel alleles from genetic stocks by the discovery of beneficial alleles from wild relatives and their introgression to cultivated types. This capability would be useful for giving plant breeders direct access to critical alleles that confer higher production, improve bioactive compounds, increase water and nutrient productivity as well as biotic and abiotic stress resilience. Allele mining is a new sophisticated technique for dissecting naturally occurring allelic variants in candidate genes that influence important traits which could be used for genetic improvement of vegetable crops. Target-induced local lesions in genomes (TILLINGs) is a sensitive mutation detection avenue in functional genomics, particularly wherein genome sequence information is limited or not available. Population exposure to chemical mutagens and the absence of selectivity lead to TILLING and EcoTILLING. EcoTILLING may lead to natural induction of SNPs and InDels. It is anticipated that as TILLING is used for vegetable crops improvement in the near future, indirect benefits will become apparent. Therefore, in this review we have highlighted the up-to-date information on allele mining for genetic enhancement in vegetable crops and methods of allele exploration and their use in pre-breeding for improvement of economic traits.

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