Applications of CRISPR–Cas in agriculture and plant biotechnology

H Zhu, C Li, C Gao - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The prokaryote-derived CRISPR–Cas genome editing technology has altered plant
molecular biology beyond all expectations. Characterized by robustness and high target …

CRISPR/Cas genome editing and precision plant breeding in agriculture

K Chen, Y Wang, R Zhang, H Zhang… - Annual review of plant …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Enhanced agricultural production through innovative breeding technology is urgently
needed to increase access to nutritious foods worldwide. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas …

Highly efficient DNA-free plant genome editing using virally delivered CRISPR–Cas9

X Ma, X Zhang, H Liu, Z Li - Nature Plants, 2020 - nature.com
Genome-editing technologies using CRISPR–Cas nucleases have revolutionized plant
science and hold enormous promise in crop improvement. Conventional transgene …

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 …

The emerging and uncultivated potential of CRISPR technology in plant science

Y Zhang, AA Malzahn, S Sretenovic, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2019 - nature.com
The application of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) for
genetic manipulation has revolutionized life science over the past few years. CRISPR was …

Applications and potential of genome editing in crop improvement

Y Zhang, K Massel, ID Godwin, C Gao - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Genome-editing tools provide advanced biotechnological techniques that enable the
precise and efficient targeted modification of an organism's genome. Genome-editing …

Genetically engineered crops for sustainably enhanced food production systems

M Abdul Aziz, F Brini, H Rouached… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Genetic modification of crops has substantially focused on improving traits for desirable
outcomes. It has resulted in the development of crops with enhanced yields, quality, and …

Knockout of OsNramp5 using the CRISPR/Cas9 system produces low Cd-accumulating indica rice without compromising yield

L Tang, B Mao, Y Li, Q Lv, LP Zhang, C Chen, H He… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Rice grain with excessive cadmium (Cd) is a major source of dietary Cd intake and a serious
threat to health for people who consume rice as a staple food. The development of elite rice …

CRISPR-Cas9 system: A new-fangled dawn in gene editing

D Gupta, O Bhattacharjee, D Mandal, MK Sen, D Dey… - Life sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Till date, only three techniques namely Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN), Transcription-Activator
Like Effector Nucleases (TALEN) and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic …

Development of broad virus resistance in non‐transgenic cucumber using CRISPR/Cas9 technology

J Chandrasekaran, M Brumin, D Wolf… - Molecular plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Genome editing in plants has been boosted tremendously by the development of
CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology …