Food system resilience: concepts, issues, and challenges

M Zurek, J Ingram, A Sanderson Bellamy… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Food system resilience has multiple dimensions. We draw on food system and resilience
concepts and review resilience framings of different communities. We present four questions …

Engineering crops of the future: CRISPR approaches to develop climate-resilient and disease-resistant plants

SSA Zaidi, A Mahas, H Vanderschuren, MM Mahfouz - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
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 …

Origin and evolution of the triploid cultivated banana genome

X Li, S Yu, Z Cheng, X Chang, Y Yun, M Jiang… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Most fresh bananas belong to the Cavendish and Gros Michel subgroups. Here, we report
chromosome-scale genome assemblies of Cavendish (1.48 Gb) and Gros Michel (1.33 Gb) …

Map** of the Susceptibility of Colombian Musaceae Lands to a Deadly Disease: Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4

G Rodríguez-Yzquierdo, BO Olivares, O Silva-Escobar… - Horticulturae, 2023 - mdpi.com
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (Foc TR4)(Syn. Fusarium
odoratissimum) is a devastating soil-borne pathogen that infects the roots of banana plants …

Gene editing the phytoene desaturase alleles of Cavendish banana using CRISPR/Cas9

F Naim, B Dugdale, J Kleidon, A Brinin, K Shand… - Transgenic …, 2018 - Springer
Bananas are a staple food source and a major export commodity worldwide. The Cavendish
dessert banana is a triploid AAA genome type and accounts for around 47% of global …

Advances in crop breeding through precision genome editing

G Nerkar, S Devarumath, M Purankar, A Kumar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The global climate change and unfavourable abiotic and biotic factors are limiting
agricultural productivity and therefore intensifying the challenges for crop scientists to meet …

Applications of CRISPR/Cas to improve crop disease resistance: beyond inactivation of susceptibility factors

D Schenke, D Cai - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Current crop production systems are prone to increasing pathogen pressure. Fundamental
understanding of molecular plant-pathogen interactions, the availability of crop and …

The origin and current situation of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 in Israel and the Middle East

M Maymon, N Sela, U Shpatz, N Galpaz, S Freeman - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) is considered one of the most devastating
soilborne fungal pathogens of banana worldwide. Foc causing mortality to Cavendish group …

Multi-site fungicides suppress banana Panama disease, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4

S Cannon, W Kay, S Kilaru, M Schuster, SJ Gurr… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Global banana production is currently challenged by Panama disease, caused by Fusarium
oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (FocTR4). There are no effective fungicide-based …

The pangenome of banana highlights differences between genera and genomes

H Rijzaani, PE Bayer, M Rouard, J Doležel… - The Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Banana (Musaceae family) has a complex genetic history and includes a genus Musa with a
variety of cultivated clones with edible fruits, Ensete species that are grown for their edible …