Omics: A new, promising technologies for boosting crop yield and stress resilience in African agriculture
Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando
Abstract
African agricultural systems are now in crucial need to assure food for the overgrowing population. To meet this challenges, we need better way to identify and modify key proteins and genes involved in yield potential, nutrient value, and stress tolerance in crucial African crops like maize, sorghum, soybeans, cassava, rice, etc. The deep understanding of metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and genomics has proven to be a useful tool for increasing crop yield and stress resilience in Africa. However, there is very little information available regarding the recent use of omics technology to increase crop yields in Africa. This review provided the recent advances in plants omics and molecular profiling techniques to enhance our understanding of crop breeding strategies for crops grown in Africa. This study will enhance our understanding of plant omics technologies and inform crop breeding strategies.