A critical review: recent advancements in the use of CRISPR/Cas9 technology to enhance crops and alleviate global food crises

A Rasheed, RA Gill, MU Hassan, A Mahmood… - Current Issues in …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Genome editing (GE) has revolutionized the biological sciences by creating a novel
approach for manipulating the genomes of living organisms. Many tools have been …

A revolution toward gene-editing technology and its application to crop improvement

S Ahmar, S Saeed, MHU Khan, S Ullah Khan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Genome editing is a relevant, versatile, and preferred tool for crop improvement, as well as
for functional genomics. In this review, we summarize the advances in gene-editing …

Perspectives of CRISPR/Cas-mediated cis-engineering in horticulture: unlocking the neglected potential for crop improvement

Q Li, M Sapkota, E van der Knaap - Horticulture research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Directed breeding of horticultural crops is essential for increasing yield, nutritional content,
and consumer-valued characteristics such as shape and color of the produce. However …

Conversion of hulled into naked barley by Cas endonuclease-mediated knockout of the NUD gene

SV Gerasimova, C Hertig, AM Korotkova… - BMC Plant …, 2020 - Springer
Background The naked caryopsis character in barley is a domestication-associated trait
defined by loss-of-function of the NUD gene. The functional NUD gene encodes an Apetala …

Putting CRISPR-Cas system in action: a golden window for efficient and precise genome editing for crop improvement

A Tariq, M Mushtaq, H Yaqoob, BA Bhat… - GM Crops & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The daunting task of feeding an ever-growing population is an immense challenge for the
contemporary scientific community, especially in view of the rapidly changing climate …

Rice breeding in Vietnam: Retrospects, challenges and prospects

TD Khanh, VX Duong, PC Nguyen, TD Xuan, NT Trung… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rice breeding was conducted for a long time during historical times and is an important job
in Vietnam because rice is the major food for domestic consumption and export. In this …

Design of guide RNA for CRISPR/Cas plant genome editing

GA Gerashchenkov, NA Rozhnova, BR Kuluev… - Molecular Biology, 2020 - Springer
CRISPR/Cas technology of genome editing is a powerful tool for making targeted changes
in the DNA of various organisms, including plants. The choice of the precise nucleotide …

Increasing Fruit Weight by Editing a Cis-Regulatory Element in Tomato KLUH Promoter Using CRISPR/Cas9

Q Li, Q Feng, A Snouffer, B Zhang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing is a powerful approach to accelerate yield
enhancement to feed growing populations. Most applications focus on “negative regulators” …

CRISPR/Cas9 technology as an innovative approach to enhancing the phytoremediation: Concepts and implications

M Naz, A Benavides-Mendoza, M Tariq, J Zhou… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phytoremediation is currently an active field of research focusing chiefly on identifying and
characterizing novel and high chelation action super-accumulators. In the last few years …

CRISPR/Cas9-edited rice: a new frontier for sustainable agriculture

S Mehta, SK Lal, KP Sahu, AK Venkatapuram… - New frontiers in stress …, 2020 - Springer
With the exponential increase in the world's human population, improving agricultural
productivity is among the top of the researchers' agendas till the 2050 deadline. One of the …