Genome engineering for crop improvement and future agriculture

C Gao - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
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 …

Wheat genomic study for genetic improvement of traits in China

J **ao, B Liu, Y Yao, Z Guo, H Jia, L Kong… - Science China Life …, 2022 - Springer
Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major crop that feeds 40% of the world's population.
Over the past several decades, advances in genomics have led to tremendous …

The gene TaWOX5 overcomes genotype dependency in wheat genetic transformation

KE Wang, L Shi, X Liang, P Zhao, W Wang, J Liu… - Nature plants, 2022 - nature.com
Although great progress has been achieved regarding wheat genetic transformation
technology in the past decade,–, genotype dependency, the most impactful factor in wheat …

Cut–dip–budding delivery system enables genetic modifications in plants without tissue culture

X Cao, H **e, M Song, J Lu, P Ma, B Huang, M Wang… - The Innovation, 2023 - cell.com
Of the more than 370 000 species of higher plants in nature, fewer than 0.1% can be
genetically modified due to limitations of the current gene delivery systems. Even for those …

Leaf transformation for efficient random integration and targeted genome modification in maize and sorghum

N Wang, L Ryan, N Sardesai, E Wu, B Lenderts… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Transformation in grass species has traditionally relied on immature embryos and has
therefore been limited to a few major Poaceae crops. Other transformation explants …

Genome-edited crops for improved food security of smallholder farmers

KV Pixley, JB Falck-Zepeda, RL Paarlberg… - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Widespread enthusiasm about potential contributions of genome-edited crops to address
climate change, food security, nutrition and health, environmental sustainability and …

Uncovering the transcriptional regulatory network involved in boosting wheat regeneration and transformation

X Liu, XM Bie, X Lin, M Li, H Wang, X Zhang, Y Yang… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic transformation is important for gene functional study and crop improvement.
However, it is less effective in wheat. Here we employed a multi-omic analysis strategy to …

Recent advances in crop transformation technologies

Z Chen, JM Debernardi, J Dubcovsky, A Gallavotti - Nature plants, 2022 - nature.com
Agriculture is experiencing a technological inflection point in its history, while also facing
unprecedented challenges posed by human population growth and global climate changes …

Boosting plant genome editing with a versatile CRISPR-Combo system

C Pan, G Li, AA Malzahn, Y Cheng, B Leyson… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9, its derived base editors and CRISPR activation systems have greatly aided
genome engineering in plants. However, these systems are mostly used separately, leaving …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR/Cas-mediated plant genome editing: outstanding challenges a decade after implementation

T Cardi, J Murovec, A Bakhsh, J Boniecka… - Trends in Plant …, 2023 - cell.com
The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas genome-editing system has revolutionized our
understanding of the plant genome. CRISPR/Cas has been used for over a decade to …