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CRISPR/Cas Mutation Screening: From Mutant Allele Detection to Prediction of Protein Coding Potential
CRISPR/Cas is a gene-editing technique that allows for the precise and specific introduction of a mutation into a DNA sequence. The outcome of a...
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The View of the European Seed Sector on Genome Editing Tools in Plant Breeding
Reconciling sustainability with agricultural productivity relies strongly on crop improvement. The continuous development of new plant breeding...
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Genome Editing in Horticultural Plants: Present Applications and Future Perspective
This chapter considers the genome editing technologies that have been utilized for breeding horticultural plants. Many examples of the successful...
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Precise Gene Editing of Cereals Using CRISPR/Cas Technology
Targeted mutagenesis using CRISPR/Cas technology has become routine in elucidating biological processes or their application in breeding and...
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Prospects for Plant Genome Editing
Genome editing – the focus of this book – is a set of methods that provide opportunities to precisely and efficiently improve crop traits by...
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Balancing Trait Improvement with Tradeoff Side-Effects Using Genome Editing Technology
Improving traits by breeding involves compromising between desired traits and possible undesired side effects. Often encountered examples include...
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The Awareness of the Polish Society on New Genomic Techniques
New genomic techniques (NGTs) are challenging from an ethical perspective as well as from the legal and regulatory point of view. Acceptance of...
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Interpreting Precision Breeding: Key Legal Concepts Under International Law and Current Domestic Regulatory Approaches in the Global South
In various countries, especially in the Global South, there is legal uncertainty about which products or organisms derived from precision breeding,...
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Genome Editing in Forest Trees
Since the first CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing of poplar in 2015, an increasing number of tree species are being genome-edited. Although the...
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NGT Plant Products in the EU. The Postulates, The Outlooks, and Possible Consequences of a Regulatory System Reform in the Context of Legislative Reforms in Third Countries and Detection Requirements
This chapter presents potential consequences of the adoption of strict detection, identification or traceability requirements in the EU legislation...
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Wheat Data Integration and FAIRification: IWGSC, GrainGenes, Ensembl and Other Data Repositories
Wheat data integration and FAIRification are key to tackling the challenge of wheat improvement. The data repositories presented in this chapter play...
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Mulberry: Mycorrhizal Interactions and Development Related to Other Organisms
Representative microorganisms of the rhizosphere layer represent crucial ecological functions in ecological cycle processes (Hossain et al. 2009; You...
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Applying Genomics Resources to Accelerate the Development of Climate Resilient Crops
Climate change and agriculture are correlated with each other in many ways, as climate change is the foremost cause of abiotic and biotic stresses,...
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Strategies for Sustainable Climate Smart Livestock Farming
Climate Smart Farming (CSF) emphasize on sustaining the farming by creating resilience in the practices through reorientation or transformation in...
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Conventional and Advance Breeding Approaches for Develo** Abiotic Stress Tolerant Maize
Conventional breeding approaches in crops continue to deliver improved genotypes to farmers since long back; however, the ever-increasing population...
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Exciting Journey: Our Past, Present and Future in the Horrific Light of Climate Change
The human species wandered from the chimps around 5 million years prior. Human (Homo Sapiens), close relatives of chimpanzees and primates who have...
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Green Consumption Behaviour for Sustainable Development
Green/sustainable consumption is a form of consumption that is attuned with the safeguard of the environment for the present and future generations....
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Perceptions on Disease and Pest Status of Major Cultivated Crops in Indian Himalayas Under Changing Climate
Agriculture in Indian Himalayan region is basically subsistence farming challenged by a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses. Himalayas are...
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Genome Sequence-Based Features of Wheat Genetic Diversity
Common wheat is a hexaploid species crop that is widely recognized as an important staple food crop. The establishment of a gold standard reference...
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Ancient Wheat Genomes Illuminate Domestication, Dispersal, and Diversity
Ancient DNA (aDNA) promises to revolutionise our understanding of crop evolution. Wheat has been a major crop for millennia and has a particularly...