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The pathogenic fungus, Alternaria porri (Ellis) Cifferi, that causes purple blotch (PB) disease, is a major constraint to production of onion and allied crops worldwide. In the present study, bulk segregant RNA s...
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Point of Care CRISPR/Cas Biosensing Technology: A Well Promising Management Strategies Towards the Possible COVID-19 Resurgence Caused by Hospital Contaminants
The Covid-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is highly transmissible and has significant public health concerns worldwide. It mainly spreads through respiratory droplets but there is a possibility of transmissio...
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Purple blotch (PB), caused by Alternaria porri (Ellis) Cifferi, is one of the most destructive diseases of onion worldwide. Rapid development and deployment of resistant onion varieties is the most effective appr...
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Targeted Gene Replacement in Plants Using CRISPR-Cas Technology
The CRISPR-Cas based genome editing systems have been widely used in plant functional genomics research and crop improvement due to its simplicity, high efficiency and specificity. For example, the CRISPR-Cas9...
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MicroRNA-Mediated Insect Resistance in Field Crops
MicroRNA (miRNA)-mediated regulation of cell growth and development, gene translational repression, and stress responses have been extensively evaluated over the last two decades. Recent evidences indicate tha...
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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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The ever-increasing human population together with emerging environmental cues from climate change demand for novel innovations in plant breeding and agriculture. Targeted genome editing technologies especiall...
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) serves as the major food source feeding half of the world’s population. In the past century, the pedigree-based conventional, radiation-based mutational and DNA marker-based molecular breed...
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T-DNA-free homozygous mutant lines developed through a single transcript CRISPR/Cas9 system harboring the desired modification in the CaERF28 locus exhibited significantly enhanced resistance to the anthracnose p...
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Although, the C2H2 zinc finger (ZF) family of plant transcription factors have been implicated in multiple biological processes, they are yet to be characterized in the economically important chilli pepper (Capsi...
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Drought stress is primarily responsible for heavy yield losses and productivity in major crops and possesses the greatest threat to the global food security. While conventional and molecular breeding approache...
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Anthracnose disease of chili (Capsicum annuum Linnaeus.) caused by Colletotrichum spp. has been a serious constraint to chili production worldwide. Two species- Colletotrichum truncatum and Colletotrichum gloeosp...
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Bacterial blight (BB), caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is a devastating disease in most of the rice growing regions worldwide. Among the 42 BB resistance (R) genes, Xa23 is an executor R gene, conf...
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Sequence-tagged site-based diagnostic markers linked to a novel anthracnose resistance gene RCt1 in chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.)
Anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum spp. is the most devastating disease of chili (Capsicum annuum) in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The present study aimed at molecular map** and develop...
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Marker Based Estimation of Gene Flow in Tropical Rice Fields and Its Ecological Consequences
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