scholarly journals Molecular tools enabling pennycress ( Thlaspi arvense ) as a model plant and oilseed cash cover crop

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 776-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela McGinn ◽  
Winthrop B. Phippen ◽  
Ratan Chopra ◽  
Sunil Bansal ◽  
Brice A. Jarvis ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 594-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam E. Wortman

AbstractInterseeding provides flexibility in cover crop establishment, but most cover crop species are not well-adapted to the duration of low-intensity light beneath the cash crop canopy. Field pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) has physiological seed dormancy traits and its emergence pattern may be better synchronized with cash crop senescence. The objective of this study was to demonstrate proof-of-concept for using pennycress as an interseeded cover crop. A 2-year field experiment was conducted where cereal rye (Secale cereale L.), mustard (Guillenia flavescens L.) or pennycress were interseeded into edamame [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] 1 month after planting. Rye and mustard emerged within 6 days, whereas pennycress emergence was delayed up to 56 days after interseeding. Pennycress provided 37–57% soil cover in fall and produced 0.4–2.5 Mg ha−1 biomass the following spring. Preliminary results demonstrate the utility of pennycress as an interseeded cover crop and the potential value of seed dormancy traits in interseeding systems.


Author(s):  
M. David Marks ◽  
Ratan Chopra ◽  
John C. Sedbrook

Growing concerns over food insecurity and ecosystems health related to population growth and climate change have challenged scientists to develop new crops, employing revolutionary technologies in combination with traditional methods. In this review, we discuss the domestication of the oilseed-producing cover crop pennycress, which along with the development of other new crops and improvements to farming practices can provide sustainable solutions to address malnutrition and environmental impacts of production agriculture. We highlight some of the new technologies such as bioinformatics-enabled next-generation sequencing and CRISPR genome editing in combination with traditional mutation breeding that has accelerated pennycress development as a new crop and a potential model system. Furthermore, we provide a brief overview of the technologies that can be integrated for improving pennycress and other crops and the status of pennycress development using these technologies.


Author(s):  
Adam Nunn ◽  
Isaac Rodríguez‐Arévalo ◽  
Zenith Tandukar ◽  
Katherine Frels ◽  
Adrián Contreras‐Garrido ◽  
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Author(s):  
М. I. Dzhalalova ◽  
P. А. Abdurashidova ◽  
R. М. Zagidova

The coastal strip of the northwestern Caspian is characterized by hydromorphism and salinization processes which depending on the Caspian piled-up water, groundwater salinity, seawater, and salt composition of the underlying rocks. The migrational salts capability in deltoic ecosystem components in dynamic over the main representatives of pasture plants occurring in the Western Caspian and playing an important role in developing the theoretical foundations of a system of measures to increase the productivity of cover crop have studied. Salts migration from soil layers into plants which taking place in synthesis of material-energy and material resource of environment is one of the chains of bio-substrat links. The research results confirm the data that the ash elements stock in the ephemeral-absinthial group varies from 21.5 to 64.5 kg per 1 ha. The organogens prevail in them – 944 kg / ha, K is dominant, then Ca and Mg. The amount of halogens is 7.05 kg / ha, of which Cl portion includes 3.31 and Na – 2.80 kg / ha. In the ephemeral-absinthial group cenoses rather high values of aboveground phytomass are up to 50 centners / ha and the supply of ash elements (halogens 32.14 and organogens 36.18 mg-eq) is much higher compared to their content in soil (7.05 and 6, 31 mg-eq). In roots difference in quantity of organogens and halogens is insignificant – 2.03 and 2.04 mg-eq. We associate such differences with a greater proportion of absinthial in the aboveground phytomass composition


Author(s):  
Mark Licht ◽  
Liz Juchems ◽  
Jacqueline Comito ◽  
Matthew Helmers ◽  
Sarah Carlson
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Author(s):  
John E. Sawyer ◽  
Jose L. Pantoja ◽  
Daniel W. Barker

Author(s):  
John E. Sawyer ◽  
Jose L. Pantoja ◽  
Daniel W. Barker

Author(s):  
Mark Licht ◽  
Liz Juchems ◽  
Jacqueline Comito ◽  
Matthew Helmers ◽  
Sarah Carlson
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