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Heat tolerance in vegetables in the current genomic era: an overview

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Global temperature rise is emerging as an alarming threat to agriculture and especially for vegetables, as they are more sensitive to high temperature because of their succulent nature. Vegetables include different edible plant parts such as leaves, stems, stalks, roots, tubers, bulbs, flowers, fruits, and seeds. An increase in temperature impairs the growth and development of vegetable plants and eventually reduces their yield. Heat tolerance is a complex quantitative trait that involves a series of physiological, biochemical, and molecular pathways. This complexity is further exacerbated by the presence of a large magnitude of genotype × environment and epistatic interactions, so breeders have to face challenges during development and selection of heat tolerant genotypes. Understanding the response of plants and resistance mechanisms involved in heat tolerance would help the breeders in formulating strategies to improve vegetable productivity under heat stress. In this review, firstly the impact of heat stress on the morphological, physiological, and molecular processes of different vegetables have been described, then discussed adaptation mechanisms employed by plants to combat heat stress. Finally, conventional and potential genomic strategies i.e. marker-assisted breeding, quantitative trait loci mapping, genome wide association, genomic selection, genetic engineering, and genome editing that are being used by the breeders to create heat resistance are presented. For vegetables, genome editing, and transgenic approaches need to be combined with conventional and marker-assisted breeding activities to develop heat tolerant varieties as these efforts will lead to tangible practical outcomes that will improve the vegetable productivity.

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Aleem, S., Sharif, I., Amin, E. et al. Heat tolerance in vegetables in the current genomic era: an overview. Plant Growth Regul 92, 497–516 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-020-00658-5

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