Journal article
Quinoa Abiotic Stress Responses: A Review
Plants (Basel), Vol.7(4), p.106
11/29/2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/108575
PMCID: PMC6313892
PMID: 30501077
Abstract
Quinoa (
Willd.) is a genetically diverse Andean crop that has earned special attention worldwide due to its nutritional and health benefits and its ability to adapt to contrasting environments, including nutrient-poor and saline soils and drought stressed marginal agroecosystems. Drought and salinity are the abiotic stresses most studied in quinoa; however, studies of other important stress factors, such as heat, cold, heavy metals, and UV-B light irradiance, are severely limited. In the last few decades, the incidence of abiotic stress has been accentuated by the increase in unpredictable weather patterns. Furthermore, stresses habitually occur as combinations of two or more. The goals of this review are to: (1) provide an in-depth description of the existing knowledge of quinoa's tolerance to different abiotic stressors; (2) summarize quinoa's physiological responses to these stressors; and (3) describe novel advances in molecular tools that can aid our understanding of the mechanisms underlying quinoa's abiotic stress tolerance.
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- Title
- Quinoa Abiotic Stress Responses: A Review
- Creators
- Leonardo Hinojosa - Facultad de Recursos Naturales, Escuela de Agrnomía, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Chimborazo, Riobamba 060106, Ecuador. l.hinojosasanchez@wsu.eduJuan A González - Fundación Miguel Lillo, Instituto de Ecología, Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán Post 4000, Argentina. jalules54@gmail.comFelipe H Barrios-Masias - Department of Agriculture, Veterinary and Rangeland Sciences, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV 89557, USA. fbarrios@cabnr.unr.eduFrancisco Fuentes - Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna, Macul, Santiago 4860, Chile. frfuentesc@uc.clKevin M Murphy - Sustainable Seed Systems Lab, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6420, USA. kmurphy2@wsu.edu
- Publication Details
- Plants (Basel), Vol.7(4), p.106
- Academic Unit
- Crop and Soil Sciences, Department of
- Publisher
- Switzerland
- Grant note
- SENESCYT-Ecuador / The National Secretary of Science, Higher Education, Innovation and Technology of Ecuador 2016-51300-25808 / National Institute of Food and Agriculture 2016-68004-24770 / National Institute of Food and Agriculture
- Identifiers
- 99900547359901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article