Application of gene editing for climate change in agriculture

NG Karavolias, W Horner, MN Abugu… - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate change imposes a severe threat to agricultural systems, food security, and human
nutrition. Meanwhile, efforts in crop and livestock gene editing have been undertaken to …

Livestock 2.0–genome editing for fitter, healthier, and more productive farmed animals

C Tait-Burkard, A Doeschl-Wilson, MJ McGrew… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
The human population is growing, and as a result we need to produce more food whilst
reducing the impact of farming on the environment. Selective breeding and genomic …

CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing induces megabase-scale chromosomal truncations

G Cullot, J Boutin, J Toutain, F Prat… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9 is a promising technology for genome editing. Here we use Cas9 nuclease-
induced double-strand break DNA (DSB) at the UROS locus to model and correct congenital …

[HTML][HTML] Cloning of macaque monkeys by somatic cell nuclear transfer

Z Liu, Y Cai, Y Wang, Y Nie, C Zhang, Y Xu, X Zhang… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Generation of genetically uniform non-human primates may help to establish animal models
for primate biology and biomedical research. In this study, we have successfully cloned …

Easi-CRISPR for creating knock-in and conditional knockout mouse models using long ssDNA donors

H Miura, RM Quadros, CB Gurumurthy, M Ohtsuka - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing can easily generate knockout mouse models by
disrupting the gene sequence, but its efficiency for creating models that require either …

Strategies to improve the efficiency of beef cattle production

SA Terry, JA Basarab, LL Guan… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Globally, there are approximately one billion beef cattle, and compared with poultry and
swine, beef cattle have the poorest conversion efficiency of feed to meat. However, these …

Progress and prospects of CRISPR/Cas systems in insects and other arthropods

D Sun, Z Guo, Y Liu, Y Zhang - Frontiers in physiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and the CRISPR-
associated gene Cas9 represent an invaluable system for the precise editing of genes in …

Synergistic power of genomic selection, assisted reproductive technologies, and gene editing to drive genetic improvement of cattle

ML Mueller, AL Van Eenennaam - CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, 2022 - Springer
Genetic improvement of cattle around the globe has been, and will continue to be, an
important driver of animal agriculture sustainability. There are several reproductive and …

Generation of myostatin‐knockout chickens mediated by D10A‐Cas9 nickase

GD Kim, JH Lee, S Song, SW Kim, JS Han… - The FASEB …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many studies have been conducted to improve economically important livestock traits such
as feed efficiency and muscle growth. Genome editing technologies represent a major …

Nuclear condensates of YAP fusion proteins alter transcription to drive ependymoma tumourigenesis

X Hu, X Wu, K Berry, C Zhao, D Xin, S Ogurek… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Nuclear localization of HIPPO-YAP fusion proteins has been implicated in supratentorial
ependymoma development. Here, unexpectedly, we find that liquid–liquid phase separation …