Feeding the ever-growing population is a major challenge, especially in light of rapidly
changing climate conditions. Genome editing is set to revolutionize plant breeding and …

To meet increasing global food demand, breeders and scientists aim to improve the yield
and quality of major food crops. Plant diseases threaten food security and are expected to …

For centuries, cannabis has been a rich source of fibrous, pharmaceutical, and recreational
ingredients. Phytocannabinoids are the most important and well-known class of cannabis …

Prolonged periods of drought triggered by climate change hamper plant growth and cause
substantial agricultural yield losses every year. In addition to drought, salinity is one of the …

Structural variations (SVs), such as inversion and duplication, contribute to important
agronomic traits in crops. Pan-genome studies revealed that SVs were a crucial and …

The central dogma (CD) of molecular biology is the transfer of genetic information from DNA
to RNA to protein. Major CD processes governing genetic flow include the cell cycle, DNA …

Genome editing can transform agriculture and shape the future of food by improving crop
yields and animal productivity, which in turn can help to achieve food security for the …

Rice is a premier staple food that constitutes the bulk of the daily diet of the majority of
people in Asia. Agricultural productivity must be boosted to support this huge demand for …

Pan-genomic studies aim at representing the entire sequence diversity within a species to
provide useful resources for evolutionary studies, functional genomics and breeding of …

Since its first appearance, CRISPR–Cas9 has been developed extensively as a
programmable genome-editing tool, opening a new era in plant genome engineering …