Plant Genome Editing Technologies
Speed Breeding, Crop Improvement and Sustainable Agriculture
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This chapter delves into the exploration of metabolic pathways, unraveling cellular activities, genetic enhancement, and the production of stress-resistant cell lines, all of which contribute to the developmen...
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The increase in the global population has severely impacted the climate. A wide range of issues such as resilient plant pathogens and harsh weather conditions have resulted in food shortages. Scientists all ov...
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SUMO conjugation is an essential process that regulates development and supports plant adaptation to environmental stress. We previously found that a Lys to Arg change in position 28 of the single-copy Arabidopsi...
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Temperate forage legumes are essential components of agricultural systems around the globe with a notable economic value. Being perennials with developed root systems, forage legumes mitigate a number of forem...
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Population genomics envisages studying numerous loci and genome regions simultaneously to understand the roles of evolutionary processes such as mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection that i...
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One of the most explored crop plants in genomics studies is maize (Zea mays L.). It has served as a model for develo** and incorporating biotechnology and genomics approaches in breeding programs of several oth...
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Yam is a collective name of tuber crops belonging to the genus Dioscorea. Yam is important not only as a staple food crop but also as an integral component of society and culture of the millions of people who dep...
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Potatoes are the third most widely grown food crop in the world. Due to their ability to grow on marginal land and produce large amounts of nutritious food with relatively few inputs, they have shaped human hi...
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Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr) is a major oilseed crop globally with major production in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, China, and India. Significant progress has been made in soybean research for increasing yield ...
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Weedy crop relatives can evolve as a byproduct of the domestication process, and most modern crop species have conspecific or congeneric weedy relatives. These weedy relatives invade crop fields and aggressive...
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Cotton (Gossypium) is a fiber-producing oil seed crop with significant economic and scientific importance in natural textile fiber and edible oil industries. Cotton is an ideal crop model system for studying poly...
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The genus Brassica contains the most economically valuable cultivated dicotyledonous plants in the world. They provide edible oil, protein, and vegetables for human consumption, as well as fodder for livestock. E...
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Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is an acknowledged model species for research in genetics and genomics, on fruit development and disease resistance, but it also deserves to be a model species for population geno...
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Sunflowers are well-established model organisms in evolutionary biology; studies of them have made important contributions to our understanding of hybridization as an evolutionarily constructive process. Here,...
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Over recent decades, an array of molecular tools has been applied in plant genome engineering, including TALENs (transcription activator-like effector nucleases), ZFNs (zinc-finger nucleases), and CRISPR/Cas s...
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Global climate change, together with harmful biotic and abiotic factors, is limiting agricultural yields, rendering it challenging to meet the rising need for food supply on a global scale. The development of ...
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With the rapid expansion of the global population and the influence of climate change on agriculture, crops with higher yields and greater resistance to abiotic stress are in demand. However, traditional crop ...
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Fruit crop offers a wide variety of beneficial metabolites and nutrients that favor human health. Increasing concerns over food and nutritional instability caused by significant climatic changes have posed cha...
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Mature rice seed has three major components, the embryo, and nutrient storage tissue endosperm, both belonging to filial generation and seed coat (fused to pericarp) i.e. derived from ovule integuments and bel...