Recent omics progress in nanobiotechnology for plant abiotic stress tolerance improvement
Lingling Chen,
Lan Zhu,
Xiaohui Liu,
Lu Chen,
Han Zhou,
Huixin Ma,
Guilan Sun,
Ashadu Nyande,
Zhaohu Li,
Honghong Wu
Affiliations
Lingling Chen
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Industrial Crops Institute, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430063, Hubei, China
Lan Zhu
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
Xiaohui Liu
College of Food and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang 550003, Guizhou, China
Lu Chen
Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Industrial Crops Institute, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan 430063, Hubei, China
Han Zhou
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
Huixin Ma
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
Guilan Sun
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
Ashadu Nyande
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
Zhaohu Li
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China
Honghong Wu
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation & Utilization of Horticultural Crops, The Center of Crop Nanobiotechnology, College of Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China; Shenzhen Institute of Nutrition and Health, Huazhong Agricultural University, Shenzhen 511464, Guangdong, China; Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 511464, Guangdong, China; Corresponding author.
Use of nanomaterials (NMs) to improve plant abiotic stress tolerance (AST) is a hot topic in NM-enabled agriculture. Previous studies mainly focused on the physiological and biochemical responses of plants treated with NMs under abiotic stress. To use NMs for improving plant AST, it is necessary to understand how they act on this tolerance at the omics and epigenetics levels. In this review, we summarized the knowledge of NM-improved abiotic stress tolerance in relation to omics (such as metabolic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and microRNA), DNA methylation, and histone modifications. Overall, NMs can improve plant abiotic stress tolerance through the modulation at omics and epigenetics levels.
