Recent approaches towards control of fungal diseases in plants: An updated review

NA El-Baky, AAAF Amara - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent research demonstrates that the number of virulent phytopathogenic fungi continually
grows, which leads to significant economic losses worldwide. Various procedures are …

Transgenic breeding approaches for improving abiotic stress tolerance: recent progress and future perspectives

A Anwar, JK Kim - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The recent rapid climate changes and increasing global population have led to an increased
incidence of abiotic stress and decreased crop productivity. Environmental stresses, such as …

PHI-base in 2022: a multi-species phenotype database for pathogen–host interactions

M Urban, A Cuzick, J Seager, V Wood… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Since 2005, the Pathogen–Host Interactions Database (PHI-base) has manually
curated experimentally verified pathogenicity, virulence and effector genes from fungal …

Engineering disease resistant plants through CRISPR-Cas9 technology

S Tyagi, R Kumar, V Kumar, SY Won, P Shukla - GM Crops & Food, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Plants are susceptible to phytopathogens, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, which
cause colossal financial shortfalls (pre-and post-harvest) and threaten global food safety. To …

Genome editing technology for genetic amelioration of fruits and vegetables for alleviating post-harvest loss

C Kumari, M Sharma, V Kumar, R Sharma, V Kumar… - Bioengineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Food security and crop production are challenged worldwide due to overpopulation,
changing environmental conditions, crop establishment failure, and various kinds of post …

Targeted plant improvement through genome editing: from laboratory to field

D Miladinovic, D Antunes, K Yildirim, A Bakhsh… - Plant cell reports, 2021 - Springer
Key message This review illustrates how far we have come since the emergence of GE
technologies and how they could be applied to obtain superior and sustainable crop …

[HTML][HTML] Effector biology of biotrophic plant fungal pathogens: Current advances and future prospects

R Jaswal, K Kiran, S Rajarammohan, H Dubey… - Microbiological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The interaction of fungal pathogens with their host requires a novel invading mechanism
and the presence of various virulence-associated components responsible for promoting the …

Integrating omics and gene editing tools for rapid improvement of traditional food plants for diversified and sustainable food security

A Kumar, T Anju, S Kumar, SS Chhapekar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Indigenous communities across the globe, especially in rural areas, consume locally
available plants known as Traditional Food Plants (TFPs) for their nutritional and health …

A CRISPR way for accelerating cereal crop improvement: Progress and challenges

U Basu, S Riaz Ahmed, BA Bhat, Z Anwar, A Ali… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Humans rely heavily on cereal grains as a key source of nutrients, hence regular
improvement of cereal crops is essential for ensuring food security. The current food crisis at …

CRISPR-based genome editing tools: Insights into technological breakthroughs and future challenges

M Mushtaq, A Ahmad Dar, M Skalicky, A Tyagi… - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Genome-editing (GE) is having a tremendous influence around the globe in the life science
community. Among its versatile uses, the desired modifications of genes, and more …