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Front. Genet.
Sec. Genomics of Plants and the Phytoecosystem
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fgene.2024.1296622
This article is part of the Research Topic Genomics Assisted Improvement Of Crop Plants For Adaptation To Marginal Environments View all 8 articles

Unraveling the genetic and molecular basis of heat stress in cotton

Provisionally accepted
Aqsa Ijaz Aqsa Ijaz 1,2Zunaira Anwar Zunaira Anwar 1,2*Allah Ditta Allah Ditta 1,2Sajjad Haidar Sajjad Haidar 1,2Baohua Wang Baohua Wang 3Fang Liu Fang Liu 4*Sana Muhy-Ud-Din Khan Sana Muhy-Ud-Din Khan 1Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan 1,2*
  • 1 Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
  • 2 Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 3 School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China
  • 4 State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, China

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    Human activities and climate change have resulted in frequent and intense weather fluctuations, leading to diverse abiotic stresses on crops which hampers greatly their metabolic activities. Heat stress, a prevalent abiotic factor, significantly influences impacts cotton cropsplant biological activities, resulting in reducing yield and production. To advance cotton breeding, wWe must deepen our understanding of how crops plants respond to heat stress across various dimensions, encompassing genes, RNAs, proteins, metabolites for effective cotton breeding, and phenotypes..To attain a more thorough understanding, employing mMulti-omics methods, primarily genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics, proves instrumental in studying cotton's responses to abiotic stresses. Integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomic information poses a key challengeis imperative for functional genomics and systems biology in advancing our better understanding of cellular biologyregarding genetics and molecular basis of heat tolerance in cotton. The current review explores fundamental omics techniques, covering genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, to highlight the progress made in cotton omics research.

    Keywords: High-temperature stress, Cotton, epigenetic modification, Transcriptomics, multiomics

    Received: 18 Sep 2023; Accepted: 29 Apr 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Ijaz, Anwar, Ditta, Haidar, Wang, Liu, Muhy-Ud-Din Khan and Khan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Zunaira Anwar, Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology, Faisalabad, 128, Punjab, Pakistan
    Fang Liu, State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Institute of Cotton Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Anyang, China
    Muhammad Kashif Riaz Khan, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

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