Plant Small RNA in Food Crops

1st Edition - April 14, 2023
Editors: Praveen Guleria, Vineet Kumar, Beixin Mo
Language: English
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Plant Small RNA for Food Crops provides foundational insights into the role of small RNA in food crops in varying environmental conditions and how it can help in developing molecular frameworks to support agricultural sustainability to feed the world’s population. Small RNA populations have been widely identified in various plants and have been reported to be involved in regulating the molecular functioning of plants and their responses for biotic and abiotic environmental factors. Until now, however, a detailed compilation of role of small RNAs in food crops growth, yield and environmental responses had been unavailable.

This book provides a detailed description of role of various small RNAs whose utilization in a range of food crops may serve to improve sustainability, productivity, and maintenance during environmental stress conditions. It brings together the reported small RNAs along with their applications specific to food crops, but also covers recent studies, innovations and future perspectives.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Editors biography
Preface
Section 1. Basics
Chapter 1. Food crops, growth and productivity as an important focus for sustainable agriculture
1. Most popular food crops
2. Future challenges
3. Increasing growth and productivity of crops foods
4. Future perspectives
Chapter 2. Challenges and opportunities to sustainable crop production
1. Present scenario of food production
2. Challenges and opportunities for sustainable food production
3. Conclusions
Chapter 3. Molecular mechanisms and strategies in Response to abiotic stresses for the sustainability of crop production under changing climate
1. Introduction
2. Abiotic stresses and signal transduction: perceiving the stress signal
3. Molecular mechanism of abiotic stress tolerance
4. Role of small RNAs in abiotic stress tolerance
5. Strategies to develop abiotic stress tolerance for sustainability of crop production under changing climate
6. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Small RNAs as emerging regulators of agricultural traits of food crops
1. Introduction
2. Biogenesis, classification, and modes of action of small RNAs
3. Small RNAs contribute to the agricultural traits of food crops
4. Conclusion and future perspectives
Section 2. Small RNA from food crops: mechanism and regulation
Chapter 5. Exploring small RNA in food crops: techniques and approaches
1. Introduction
2. High throughput next generation small RNA sequencing
3. Future perspectives
Chapter 6. Plant small RNAs: biogenesis, mechanistic functions and applications
1. Introduction
2. Small RNA biogenesis and mode of action
3. Plant small RNAs in response to stress
4. Small RNAs of field crops
5. Small RNAs of horticultural crops
6. Cross-kingdom transfer of small RNAs
7. Small RNAs in the food and nutritional security
8. Concluding remarks
Chapter 7. RNAi based approaches for abiotic and biotic stresses tolerance of crops
1. Introduction
2. Mechanism and biogenesis of sRNA
3. Role of small RNA in abiotic stress tolerance
4. Role of small RNA during biotic stress
5. Applications of RNAi technology in crop development
6. Conclusion and future prospective
Chapter 8. Regulation of morphogenesis and development in food crops: role of small RNA
1. Introduction
2. Modes of sRNA transport to cell
3. Role of small RNAs in development, morphogenesis, and yield of the plant
4. Small RNA regulating growth and development related hormone signaling
5. Small RNA in disease resistance and stress tolerance in plants
6. Conclusion and future prospects
Chapter 9. Small RNA – regulator of biotic stress and pathogenesis in food crops
1. Introduction
2. Plant immunity and small RNAs in plant defense
3. MicroRNA of plants
4. Small interfering RNA
5. Importance of small RNAs in biotic stress regulation
6. Circular RNA and its biogenesis
7. Small RNA movement between organisms to regulate plant-pathogen interactions
8. RNA based technologies for plant disease control
9. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Small RNA networking: host-microbe interaction in food crops
1. Introduction
2. Differentially expressed stress responsive small RNA
3. Pathogenic interaction-triggers plant immunity
4. MiRNAs
5. MicroRNA like RNA
6. Si-RNA
7. Plant-microbe beneficial interactions
8. Small RNA in crop improvement
9. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Small RNAs involved in salt stress tolerance of food crops
1. Salt stress is a main abiotic stress restricting growth and production of crops
2. Salt-responsive small RNAs are identified in different food crops
3. Common small RNAs involved in salt stress response of different food crops and their target genes
4. Salt tolerance improvement of food crops through manipulation of small RNAs
Chapter 12. miRNAs perspective in mitigating waterlogging stress in plants
1. Introduction
2. Waterlogging effect on plant growth and development
3. miRNA biogenesis in plants
4. Expression and modulation of miRNAs and morphological adaptations
5. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Molecular mechanisms alleviating drought stress tolerance in crop plants
1. Introduction
2. Drought stress tolerance in plants
3. Transcription factors engaged in abiotic stress resistance
4. Non-coding RNAs and drought stress
5. RNAi technology for the improvement of drought stress tolerance in crop plants
6. Conclusions
Chapter 14. Grain development and crop productivity: role of small RNA
1. Overview
2. Fruit development; case study in Darwin's “abominable mystery”
3. miRNAs in citrus
4. miRNAs in Brassica
5. miRNAs in asterids (Solanaceae)
6. miRNAs in other asterids Oleaceae, Sesame, and Actinidiaceae
7. miRNAs in rosids
8. miRNAs in monocots
9. Conclusions and future prospects
Section 3. Small RNA from food crops: mechanism and regulation
Chapter 15. Food crops improvement: comparative biotechnological approaches
1. Introduction
2. miRNA-based biotechnology for food crop improvement
3. miRNAs roles in food crops improvement
4. Future perspectives
Chapter 16. Small RNA transgenesis for abiotic stress tolerant food crops
1. Introduction
2. Introduction of sRNA transgenic technologies
3. Challenges: safety and specificity
4. Perspectives: better strategies and efficiency
5. Conclusion
Chapter 17. Scope of small RNA technology to develop biotic stress tolerant food crops
1. Introduction
2. Effect of biotic stress on food crops
3. Role of small RNA in eliminating various biotic stress
4. Viral stress
5. Fungal stress
6. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Future prospective of small RNA molecules: food crop improvement and agricultural sustainability
1. Introduction
2. Classification of sRNA
3. Micro RNA (miRNA)
4. Short-interfering RNAs (siRNA)
5. Biogenesis and mode of action of sRNA in plants
6. Comparison between miRNA and siRNA
7. Role of miRNA in food crop improvement
8. Role of siRNA in crop improvement
9. siRNA for nutritional enhancement in food crops
10. sRNA in developing climate-resilient food crop plants
11. sRNA-based approaches to develop biotic stress tolerance in crop plants
12. Pest and nematode resistance
13. Conclusion
Index

Praveen Guleria

Praveen Guleria is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. She has worked in the areas of Plant Biotechnology, Plant Metabolic Engineering and Plant Stress Biology at CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, H.P. India. Her research interests include plant stress biology, plant small RNA Biology, plant epigenomics and nanotoxicity. She has published several research articles in various peer-reviewed journals. She is also serving as the editorial board member and reviewer for certain international peer reviewed journals. She has been awarded the SERB- Start Up Grant by DST, GOI. She has also been awarded the prestigious “Bharat Gaurav Award” by the India International Friendship Society, New Delhi. She has also received various awards like CSIR/ ICMR- Junior research Fellowship, CSIR- Senior research fellowship, State level merit scholarship awards.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor, Plant Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Lab, Department of Biotechnology, DAV University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Vineet Kumar

Vineet Kumar is presently working as a National Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences at Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. He earned his Ph.D. (2018) in Environmental Microbiology from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (A Central) University, Lucknow, India. His research interests include waste management, bioremediation, phytoremediation, metagenomics, wastewater treatment, environmental monitoring, bioplastic, and biofuel production. He has published more than 45 articles in peer-reviewed international journals of repute, 54 book chapters, and 4 scientific magazine articles, with more than citations of 2100, and h-index of 26. In addition, he has published 2 authored and 22 edited books on various aspects of science and engineering by Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, RSC, and Wiley. He has been serving as a guest editor and reviewer in more than 50 International Journals for his research area. He is an active member of numerous scientific societies including the Microbiology Society (UK), the Indian Science Congress Association (India), the Association of Microbiologists of India (India), etc.

Affiliations and expertise

National Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India

Beixin Mo

Beixin Mo is a “Distinguished Professor of Guangdong Province Talent Special Support Plan”.  She received her Bachelor’s degree in Plant Developmental and Molecular Biology from Peking University, China, and received her Ph.D. degree from Guelph University, Canada. Her research area includes elucidation of molecular mechanisms involved in the biogenesis, degradation and movement of plant small RNAs. She has received extensive research funding and published over 50 papers in distinguished journals, such as Nature Communications, Nature Plants, the Plant Cell and Genome Biology

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Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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