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Recent advances in breeding citrus for drought and saline stress tolerance

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Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops

Abstract

Citrus is a major world horticultural commodity, and most of its world-wide production depends on irrigation, which is inevitably associated with the deterioration of water quality from run-off or ground water. Citrus, like most fruit trees, is relatively salt sensitive. The deleterious effects of salt stress lead to reduction in fruit yield and quality. In recent years, only a few relatively salt-tolerant rootstocks have been obtained through selection and conventional breeding, due to a rather limited existing genetic pool and the long period of time required for experiments. Attempts to regenerate salt-tolerant citrus plants via in vitro production of salt-tolerant callus or mutagenesis have been rather limited and as of yet not in use. Therefore, efforts should be invested to identify traits/genes that have a key role in tolerance to salt in order to speed up the process and to enlarge these genetic resources

QTL analyses revealed that response to salt in citrus is a multigenic trait, as has been shown in other species, but some genes probably exist that have a major impact on salt tolerance and (or) mineral accumulation. Several robust EST databases now exist and are growing, the first microarray chips have been manufactured, and an initial genome sequencing effort is underway. These tools should allow citrus physiologists, biochemists, and geneticists to make much more rapid progress in understanding salt and water stress in the future and to design strategies to ameliorate their effects

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Ben-Hayyim, G., Moore, G.A. (2007). Recent advances in breeding citrus for drought and saline stress tolerance. In: Jenks, M.A., Hasegawa, P.M., Jain, S.M. (eds) Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5578-2_25

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