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Tweaking CRISPR/Cas for Develo** Salt and Drought Tolerant Crop Plants
Drought and soil salinity stresses are major consequences of climate change and the main source of yield loss and diminishing crop productivity. Abiotic stress-tolerant crops are expected to ensure global food...
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Reactive Oxygen Species: Friend or Foe
Climate change and associated unfavorable abiotic stress conditions, such as drought, salinity, heavy metals, water logging, extreme temperatures, oxygen deprivation, etc., influence plant growth and developme...
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Expanding the Scope of Base Editing in Crops Using Cas9 Variants
Genome editing technologies hold tremendous possibilities towards crop improvement and food security for the future. Among others, base editors have developed as novel editing platforms that facilitates specif...
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CRISPR Technologies for Plant Biotechnology Innovation
The invention of CRISPR/Cas technologies and its rapid advancement enables us to modify plant genomes like never before. The Conventional CRISPR/Cas tool has an unparalleled ability to generate targeted mutati...
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Biofortification in Fruits
The increasing population, lack of proper nutrition and hunger are the most significant challenges faced by many countries over the globe. The dificiency of vitamins and minerals is of major public health conc...
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Transgenic Biofortified Crops: Applicability and Challenges
Throughout the world, more people suffer from malnutrition than hunger, particularly in develo** countries. Some nutrients like iodine, vitamin A, iron, and zinc malnutrition are significant concerns. Biofor...
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Omics Approaches for Cold Stress Tolerance in Plants
Low temperature is a noteworthy risk that limits development, advancement and distribution, causing the plant harm and harvest misfortunes. Plants react to cold stress through a process known as cold acclimati...
