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ReviewFrontiers in genetics2021

Mechanisms of Genome Maintenance in Plants: Playing It Safe With Breaks and Bumps.

Aamir Raina, Parmeshwar K Sahu, Rafiul Amin Laskar, Nitika Rajora, Richa Sao, Samiullah Khan, Rais A Ganai

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Review in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Genome Editing Approaches in Flax (International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. The leaves fall, yet the tree endures.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  6. Manipulating alternative end-joining alters carbon-ion beam-induced genome mutation profiles in Arabidopsis thaliana.DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes · 2025
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  7. Genes · 2025
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  8. Review
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  10. Comparative Genome-Wide Analysis of TwoPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  11. Review
  12. Frontiers in microbiology · 2022
    Article
  13. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Aamir RainaMutation Breeding Laboratory, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Parmeshwar K SahuDepartment of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Indira Gandhi Agriculture University, Raipur, India.
Rafiul Amin LaskarDepartment of Botany, Bahona College, Jorhat, India.
Nitika RajoraNational Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali, India.
Richa SaoDepartment of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Indira Gandhi Agriculture University, Raipur, India.
Samiullah KhanMutation Breeding Laboratory, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Rais A GanaiWatson-Crick Centre for Molecular Medicine, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India.
Aligarh Muslim University · INIndira Gandhi Agricultural University · INIslamic University of Science and Technology · INNational Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maintenance of genomic integrity is critical for the perpetuation of all forms of life including humans. Living organisms are constantly exposed to stress from internal metabolic processes and external environmental sources causing damage to the DNA, thereby promoting genomic instability. To counter the deleterious effects of genomic instability, organisms have evolved general and specific DNA damage repair (DDR) pathways that act either independently or mutually to repair the DNA damage. The mechanisms by which various DNA repair pathways are activated have been fairly investigated in model organisms including bacteria, fungi, and mammals; however, very little is known regarding how plants sense and repair DNA damage. Plants being sessile are innately exposed to a wide range of DNA-damaging agents both from biotic and abiotic sources such as ultraviolet rays or metabolic by-products. To escape their harmful effects, plants also harbor highly conserved DDR pathways that share several components with the DDR machinery of other organisms. Maintenance of genomic integrity is key for plant survival due to lack of reserve germline as the derivation of the new plant occurs from the meristem. Untowardly, the accumulation of mutations in the meristem will result in a wide range of genetic abnormalities in new plants affecting plant growth development and crop yield. In this review, we will discuss various DNA repair pathways in plants and describe how the deficiency of each repair pathway affects plant growth and development.

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DNA damageDNA repair pathwaysDNA replicationgenome integritymutations

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PMID34239541
PMCPMC8258418
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