In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

Gene therapy has long held promise to correct a variety of human diseases and defects.
Discovery of the Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), the …

Carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases (CCD s) belong to a small gene family and have an
important role in the intricate metabolism of carotenoids in plants. In this study we aimed to …

The CRISPR-Cas system is a powerful tool for in vivo editing the genome of most organisms,
including man. During the years this technique has been applied in several fields, such as …

The advanced biotechnology CRISPR/Cas9 as a powerful genome editing tool has
displayed great potential for improving important agronomic traits such as yield and quality …

Alternative splicing (AS) significantly enriches the diversity of transcriptomes and proteomes,
playing a pivotal role in the physiology and development of eukaryotic organisms. With the …

Background WRKY transcription factor is involved in regulation of plant growth and
development, response to biotic and abiotic stresses, including homologous WRKY3 and …

Soybean [Glycine max (Linn.) Merr] is a source of plant-based proteins and an essential
oilseed crop and industrial raw material. The increase in the demand for soybeans due to …

Following recent developments and refinement, CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology has
become increasingly mature and is being widely used for crop improvement. The application …

Main conclusion An improved CRISPR/Cas9 system with the Arabidopsis UBQ10 promoter-
driven Cas9 exhibits consistently high mutation efficiency in Arabidopsis and M. truncatula …