Plant Breeding Approaches for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops: A Review

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Emerging breeding techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 can significantly enhance crop resilience to abiotic stresses, ensuring food security.
Marker-assisted selection and genomic selection were highlighted as key methods in incorporating stress tolerance traits into crops.
The integration of traditional and molecular breeding techniques has streamlined the development of resilient crop varieties, benefiting global agriculture.
Utilizing crop wild relatives is essential for diversifying genetic resources to bolster abiotic stress tolerance in future breeding programs.

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This review shows advances in genetic engineering to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops, suggesting new breeding strategies.

Ray et al. (2025) studied this question.

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