Adapting legume crops to climate change using genomic approaches.
Mahsa Mousavi-Derazmahalleh, Philipp E Bayer, James K Hane, Babu Valliyodan, Henry T Nguyen, Matthew N Nelson, William Erskine, Rajeev K Varshney, Roberto Papa, David Edwards
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Mahsa Mousavi-Derazmahalleh: UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. ORCID
Philipp E Bayer: School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. ORCID
James K Hane: CCDM Bioinformatics, Centre for Crop Disease Management, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, 6102, Australia. ORCID
Babu Valliyodan: Division of Plant Sciences and National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA. ORCID
Henry T Nguyen: Division of Plant Sciences and National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA. ORCID
Matthew N Nelson: UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. ORCID
William Erskine: UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. ORCID
Rajeev K Varshney: UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. ORCID
Roberto Papa: Department of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131, Ancona, Italy. ORCID
David Edwards: School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia. ORCID
Our agricultural system and hence food security is threatened by combination of events, such as increasing population, the impacts of climate change, and the need to a more sustainable development. Evolutionary adaptation may help some species to overcome environmental changes through new selection pressures driven by climate change. However, success of evolutionary adaptation is dependent on various factors, one of which is the extent of genetic variation available within species. Genomic approaches provide an exceptional opportunity to identify genetic variation that can be employed in crop improvement programs. In this review, we illustrate some of the routinely used genomics-based methods as well as recent breakthroughs, which facilitate assessment of genetic variation and discovery of adaptive genes in legumes. Although additional information is needed, the current utility of selection tools indicate a robust ability to utilize existing variation among legumes to address the challenges of climate uncertainty.
