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Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is the principal source of sugar and renewable biofuel in many tropical and subtropical nations. Despite having significantly high yield, it is difficult to achieve continuous production of sugarcane, particularly because of recurrent losses occurring due to biotic and abiotic stresses. Sugarcane transcriptome research has largely been used to characterise genes and their relationship to stress tolerance. On the other hand, being a highly polyploid and complex genome crop and several isoform of transcripts the transcriptome analysis in sugarcane remains a "bottleneck". However, recent advances in sequencing technologies opened the floodgates of sugarcane transcriptomics. Development of sugarcane cultivars with improved stress tolerance is one of the major aims of researchers to increase sugarcane production. So, understanding the transcriptome of sugarcane under stress is very important to future crop breeding. Here, in this review we focus on some of the current research in sugarcane transcriptomics under major stresses like drought, extreme temperature, salinity, oxidative stress, and few biotic stresses. Also, the major genes involved in both biotic and abiotic stress tolerance are also discussed which might be useful resources for future crop improvement programs in sugarcane through genome editing tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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