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Enhancing Maize Crop through Advanced Techniques: A Comprehensive Approach

Vikas Kumar Singh
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Saksham Pundir
,
Deepti Chaturvedi
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Arshdeep Kaur
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Abhishek Pandey
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Shreya Mandal
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Rahul Kumar
,
Harish Pal Bhati
,
Ramesh Kumar Singh
,
Chittaranjan Kole
,
Prashant Kaushik
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Version 1 : Received: 27 September 2023 / Approved: 29 September 2023 / Online: 30 September 2023 (10:26:37 CEST)

How to cite: Kumar Singh, V.; Pundir, S.; Chaturvedi, D.; Kaur, A.; Pandey, A.; Mandal, S.; Kumar, R.; Pal Bhati, H.; Kumar Singh, R.; Kole, C.; Kaushik, P. Enhancing Maize Crop through Advanced Techniques: A Comprehensive Approach. Preprints 2023, 2023092115. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.2115.v1 Kumar Singh, V.; Pundir, S.; Chaturvedi, D.; Kaur, A.; Pandey, A.; Mandal, S.; Kumar, R.; Pal Bhati, H.; Kumar Singh, R.; Kole, C.; Kaushik, P. Enhancing Maize Crop through Advanced Techniques: A Comprehensive Approach. Preprints 2023, 2023092115. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.2115.v1

Abstract

Maize (Zea mays L.) stands as one of the most extensively cultivated crops globally, offering significant contributions to food, animal feed, and biofuel production. Maize yield is significantly impacted by diverse climate and soil variables, yet its productivity faces hindrances due to abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, and cold conditions. In confronting these hurdles, the field of crop breeding has undergone a transformation thanks to high-throughput sequencing technologies (HSTs). These advancements have streamlined the identification of beneficial quantitative trait loci (QTL), associations between markers and traits (MTAs), as well as genes and alleles that contribute to crop improvement. Presently, well-established omics techniques such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics are being amalgamated into maize breeding studies. These approaches have unveiled new biological markers that are being employed to bolster maize's capacity to withstand an array of challenges. In this chapter, we explore the current knowledge regarding the morpho-physiological and molecular mechanisms that underlie the resistance and tolerance of maize to biotic and abiotic stresses. The focus is on utilizing omics techniques to augment maize's ability to withstand these challenges. Moreover, it emphasizes the significant potential of integrating various omics techniques to tackle the challenges presented by biotic and abiotic stress in maize productivity, contrasting with singular approaches.

Keywords

Maize; Omics; Stresses; Resistance; Crop Improvement

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Plant Sciences

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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