AUTHOR=Razzaq Ali , Saleem Fozia , Wani Shabir Hussain , Abdelmohsen Shaimaa A. M. , Alyousef Haifa A. , Abdelbacki Ashraf M. M. , Alkallas Fatemah H. , Tamam Nissren , Elansary Hosam O. TITLE=De-novo Domestication for Improving Salt Tolerance in Crops JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.681367 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2021.681367 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Global agriculture production is under serious threat from rapidly increasing population and adverse climate changes. Food security is currently a huge challenge to feed 10 billion people by 2050. Crop domestication through conventional approaches is not good enough to meet the food demands and unable to fast-track the crop yields. Also, intensive breeding and rigorous selection of superior traits causes genetic erosion and eliminates stress-responsive genes, which makes crops more prone to abiotic stresses. Salt stress is one of the most prevailing abiotic stresses that poses severe damages to crop yield around the globe. Recent innovations in state-of-the-art genomics and transcriptomics technologies have paved the way to develop salinity tolerant crops.