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The Application of Genome Editing Technologies in Soybean (Glycine max L.) for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Soybean (Glycine max L.) is one of the five major cultivated crops that are important in the world, and it is also a major source of oil and protein for humans and livestock. But its seed yield is relatively low ...
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The Use of Gene Editing Technology to Introduce Targeted Modifications in Woody Plants
Genome editing technologies help in precise target genome modifications. Various powerful editing tools such as transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), clustered...
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Population Genomics of Phaseolus spp.: A Domestication Hotspot
The genus Phaseolus includes five domesticated species. Collectively, Phaseolus beans are produced across all inhabited continents under a variety of environments, mainly for dry beans but also green pods. Buildi...
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Coalescent Models of Demographic History: Application to Plant Domestication
A detailed understanding of the origins of domesticated species is important for many disciplines. Recent advances in this field have been made with the use of genome-wide polymorphisms and improved statistica...
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Population Genomics of Sweet Watermelon
Sweet watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. vulgaris) belongs to the genus Citrullus Schrad and has six known species including Citrullus naudinianus, C. colocynthis, C. ecirrhosus, C. rehmii, C. amarus, and C. muco...
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Genomics of Plant Gene Banks: Prospects for Managing and Delivering Diversity in the Digital Age
Gene bank collections are at a pivotal point in their history. We review their development and explain how their role is changing with new technologies in computation and analytics and the widespread applicati...
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Population Genomics of Pearl Millet
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br., syn. Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone)], one of the major staple food for around 100 million people across Africa and India, is a so-called “orphan” crop. Recently, s...
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Population Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a multipurpose crop worldwide, and it is used as a source of food, fodder, feed, and fuel. It is currently considered a promising alternative crop for generating bioenergy from suga...
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Population Genomics and Genomics-Assisted Trait Improvement in Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze)
“Tea” is undoubtedly one of the most widely consumed beverage processed from young shoots of tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] plant. The popularity of tea is attributed to its taste, aroma, and multiple hea...
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Population Genomics Along With Quantitative Genetics Provides a More Efficient Valorization of Crop Plant Genetic Diversity in Breeding and Pre-breeding Programs
The breeding efforts of the twentieth century contributed to large increases in yield but selection may have increased vulnerability to environmental perturbations. In that context, there is a growing demand f...
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Enhancing Crop Breeding Using Population Genomics Approaches
The use of genetic information to predict the value of individuals in plant breeding populations began about 40 years ago. The original paradigm was to identify genomic regions with outsize influence on a trai...
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Population Genomics of Organelle Genomes in Crop Plants
Chloroplast and mitochondria are specialized structure located in the cytoplasm of plant cells which possess their own genomes and are usually transmitted by one parent only. Organelle DNA markers have been wi...
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Pangenomics in Crop Plants
Identifying diversity at many scales is the keystone to understand how genomes evolved and plants are so adaptable, even if they are under extreme constraint. Understanding the processes that create diversity ...
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Plant Genome Editing Technologies: An Updated Overview
A genome is a representation of all the genetic material that forms an organism and is stored in its deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Genetic engineering, genome editing, and gene editing are all terms that relate...
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Novel Genome-Editing Approaches for Develo** Non-GM Crops for Sustainable Improvement and the Mitigation of Climate Changes
The utilization of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas-based genome-editing technologies holds significant promise in the realm of crop genome manipulation since it enables pr...
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Plant Breeding Becomes Smarter with Genome Editing
The conventional concept of plant breeding as art and science is shifting toward less art and more science due to the rapid development in genomics, transcriptomics, and the availability of advanced molecular ...
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Plant Genome Editing for Enhanced Biotic Stress Tolerance Using the CRISPR/Cas Technology
Plants are continuously attacked by a wide range of disease-causing microorganisms, which damage crops and threaten agricultural sustainability. To deal with this situation, crop varieties that are resistant t...