ReviewScientifica2018
African Orphan Crops under Abiotic Stresses: Challenges and Opportunities.
Review in Scientifica, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Roles of endophytic fungi in plant resilience under abiotic stress: A mechanistic review with implications for climate-smart agriculture.Plant signaling & behavior · 2025Review
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- Salicylic Acid Enhances Growth, Photosynthetic Performance and Antioxidant Defense Activity Under Salt Stress in Two Mungbean [Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek] Variety.Plant signaling & behavior · 2023Article
- Green revolution to genome revolution: driving better resilient crops against environmental instability.Frontiers in genetics · 2023Review
- Nutrition security, constraints, and agro-diversification strategies of neglected and underutilized crops to fight global hidden hunger.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Review
- Construction of A GBS-Based High-Density Genetic Map and Flower Color-Related Loci Mapping in Grasspea (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Breeding of Vegetable Cowpea for Nutrition and Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Diversity and Diversification: Ecosystem Services Derived From Underutilized Crops and Their Co-benefits for Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes and Resilient Food Systems in Africa.Frontiers in agronomy · 2022Article
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- Orphan Crops: A Best Fit for Dietary Enrichment and Diversification in Highly Deteriorated Marginal Environments.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Review
- Photosynthesis across African cassava germplasm is limited by Rubisco and mesophyll conductance at steady state, but by stomatal conductance in fluctuating light.The New phytologist · 2020Article
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- Prospects of orphan crops in climate change.Planta · 2019Review
- Speed breeding orphan crops.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2019Review
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Abstract
A changing climate, a growing world population, and a reduction in arable land devoted to food production are all problems facing the world food security. The development of crops that can yield under uncertain and extreme climatic and soil growing conditions can play a key role in mitigating these problems. Major crops such as maize, rice, and wheat are responsible for a large proportion of global food production but many understudied crops (commonly known as "orphan crops") including millets, cassava, and cowpea feed millions of people in Asia, Africa, and South America and are already adapted to the local environments in which they are grown. The application of modern genetic and genomic tools to the breeding of these crops can provide enormous opportunities for ensuring world food security but is only in its infancy. In this review, the diversity and types of understudied crops will be introduced, and the beneficial traits of these crops as well as their role in the socioeconomics of Africa will be discussed. In addition, the response of orphan crops to diverse types of abiotic stresses is investigated. A review of the current tools and their application to the breeding of enhanced orphan crops will also be described. Finally, few examples of global efforts on tackling major abiotic constraints in Africa are presented.
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