Proteomics: a biotechnology tool for crop improvement

Abstract

A sharp decline in the availability of arable land and sufficient supply of irrigation water along with a continuous steep increase in food demands have exerted a pressure on farmers to produce more with fewer resources. A viable solution to release this pressure is to speed up the plant breeding process by employing biotechnology in breeding programs. The majority of biotechnological applications rely on information generated from various -omic technologies. The latest outstanding improvements in proteomic platforms and many other but related advances in plant biotechnology techniques offer various new ways to encourage the usage of these technologies by plant scientists for crop improvement programs. A combinatorial approach of accelerated gene discovery through genomics, proteomics, and other associated -omic branches of biotechnology, as an applied approach, is proving to be an effective way to speed up the crop improvement programs worldwide. In the near future, swift improvements in -omic databases are becoming critical and demand immediate attention for the effective utilization of these techniques to produce next-generation crops for the progressive farmers. Here, we have reviewed the recent advances in proteomics, as tools of biotechnology, which are offering great promise and leading the path toward crop improvement for sustainable agriculture.

Proteomic and metabolomic analysis of minimax and Williams 82 soybeans grown under two different conditions

“…Normally field conditions encompass genotypes of stress conditions which are not favorable to growth and development of seeds (Gallagher, Granger, Snyder, Pittmann, & Fuerst, ). The predominant abiotic stress in the field conditions are heat and drought which reduces the carbon fixation by the photosynthetic apparatus (Eldakak, Milad, Nawar, & Rohila, ; Farooq, Wahid, Kobayashi, Fujita, & Basra, ). Reduced carbon assimilation due to membrane damage, stomatal closure, and CO 2 fixation enzymes increases the damage of metabolic functions, development of plant, protein biosynthesis, and seed maturation (Das et al ; Kosová, Vítámvás, Prášil, & Renaut, ).…”

Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterial Mitigation of Drought Stress in Crop Plants: Implications for Sustainable Agriculture

“…Abscisic acid is vital to the opening and closing of the stomata, especially when plants are stressed. The concentrations of abscisic acid in plant cells is regulated in reaction to the availability of water to the plant; thus, it is important in the reaction of plants to water stress conditions by inducing several transcription factors [119]. The quantity of abscisic acid in maize plants inoculated with Azospirillum Lipoferum increased, resulting in stomata closure arising from a low transpirational loss of water [2,120].…”

Proteomic analysis of muscle between hybrid abalone and parental lines Haliotis gigantea Reeve and Haliotis discus hannai Ino

“…Proteomic approaches can help characterize molecular phenotypes of hybrids compared with parental species and may identify relevant genetic markers (Guo et al, 2013). Thus proteomics holds promise for sustainable agriculture (Eldakak et al, 2013).…”