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Genomics of Low-Temperature Tolerance for an Increased Sustainability of Wheat and Barley Production

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Stability of high yields in a changing environment becomes the main aim of the future wheat and barley breeding, oriented towards development of frost-tolerant winter and facultative cultivars together with careful selection of growth cycle adaptation and drought tolerance. Since low temperature signal influences both the cold acclimation and vernalization processes the interaction between VRN gene expression and freezing tolerance (FT) is discussed. Recent advances in global expression changes driven by cold are reviewed in view of the immense progress in high throughput technological platforms. Different signal transduction pathways in which several transcription factors play an important role regulating the expression of whole sets of genes are presented, including CBF-regulated and CBF-independent hubs. The knowledge acquired from genomics and transcriptome analysis has been then complemented by the description of metabolomics and proteomic approaches to help unraveling the molecular changes that occur under cold stress in the cereal plants. Finally, it is surveyed the great importance of stable and well-characterized genetic resources for future breeding for FT, that could switch from marker-assisted to genomics-assisted selection.

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This work was supported by the European Union (AGRISAFE 203288—EU-FP7-REGPOT 2007-1), by a joint grant of EU and the European Social Fund, by the FROSTMAP project of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund and the National Office for Research and Technology (OTKA K 83642, NKTH-OTKA CNK 80781), by the National Development Agency grant TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0025 Doctoral School of Molecular- and Nanotechnologies, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Pannonia, by the Czech Ministry of Agriculture (MZe ČR), project no. 0002700604 and by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (GA ČR) postdoctoral project P501/11/P637.

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  2. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Crop Research Institute, Drnovská Street 507, Prague 6—Ruzyně, 16106, Prague, the Czech Republic

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Pecchioni, N. et al. (2014). Genomics of Low-Temperature Tolerance for an Increased Sustainability of Wheat and Barley Production. In: Tuberosa, R., Graner, A., Frison, E. (eds) Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7575-6_6

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