Multi-Omics Integration for Abiotic Stress Acclimation in Tropical and Underutilized Plants
Saqib Ali, Hoe-Han Goh
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.95, No.6, 2026, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2026.084657
(This article belongs to the Special Issue:
Multi-Omics Insights into Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress)
Abstract Abiotic stresses particularly drought, salinity, and temperature extremes increasingly threaten crop stability in tropical environments where combinatorial stress events are intensifying under climate change. Despite growing omics capacity, current multi-omics syntheses of plant stress acclimation remain dominated by model species and major crops, leaving tropical and underutilized plants underrepresented in comparative stress biology. This review examines how transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, and integrative multi-omics frameworks have been applied to abiotic stress acclimation in selected tropical and underutilized plants, including banana, cassava, cacao, oil palm, papaya,
Garcinia, coconut, mango,
Avicennia marina, and tropical millets. We show that transcriptomics…
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