TY - JOUR
T1 - Conquering compacted soils
T2 - uncovering the molecular components of root soil penetration
AU - Bello-Bello, Elohim
AU - López-Arredondo, Damar
AU - Rico-Chambrón, Thelma Y.
AU - Herrera-Estrella, Luis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Global agriculture and food security face paramount challenges due to climate change and land degradation. Human-induced soil compaction severely affects soil fertility, impairing root system development and crop yield. There is a need to design compaction-resilient crops that can thrive in degraded soils and maintain high yields. To address plausible solutions to this challenging scenario, we discuss current knowledge on plant root penetration ability and delineate potential approaches based on root-targeted genetic engineering (RGE) and genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) for developing crops with enhanced root system penetrability (RSP) into compacted soils. Such approaches could lead to crops with improved resilience to climate change and marginal soils, which can help to boost CO2 sequestration and storage in deeper soil strata.
AB - Global agriculture and food security face paramount challenges due to climate change and land degradation. Human-induced soil compaction severely affects soil fertility, impairing root system development and crop yield. There is a need to design compaction-resilient crops that can thrive in degraded soils and maintain high yields. To address plausible solutions to this challenging scenario, we discuss current knowledge on plant root penetration ability and delineate potential approaches based on root-targeted genetic engineering (RGE) and genomics-assisted breeding (GAB) for developing crops with enhanced root system penetrability (RSP) into compacted soils. Such approaches could lead to crops with improved resilience to climate change and marginal soils, which can help to boost CO2 sequestration and storage in deeper soil strata.
KW - genetic engineering
KW - genomics-assisted breeding
KW - root system penetrability
KW - smart-rooting crops
KW - soil compaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129700243&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2022.04.001
M3 - Review article
C2 - 35525799
AN - SCOPUS:85129700243
SN - 1360-1385
VL - 27
SP - 814
EP - 827
JO - Trends in Plant Science
JF - Trends in Plant Science
IS - 8
ER -