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 …

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 …

Plants' physio-biochemical and phyto-hormonal responses to alleviate the adverse effects of drought stress: A comprehensive review

A Wahab, G Abdi, MH Saleem, B Ali, S Ullah, W Shah… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Water, a necessary component of cell protoplasm, plays an essential role in supporting life
on Earth; nevertheless, extreme changes in climatic conditions limit water availability …

CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutics: progress and prospects

T Li, Y Yang, H Qi, W Cui, L Zhang, X Fu, X He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 (Cas9) gene-editing technology is the ideal tool of the future for treating diseases …

Prime genome editing in rice and wheat

Q Lin, Y Zong, C Xue, S Wang, S **, Z Zhu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prime editors, which are CRISPR–Cas9 nickase (H840A)–reverse transcriptase fusions
programmed with prime editing guide RNAs (pegRNAs), can edit bases in mammalian cells …

Major impacts of widespread structural variation on gene expression and crop improvement in tomato

M Alonge, X Wang, M Benoit, S Soyk, L Pereira… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Structural variants (SVs) underlie important crop improvement and domestication traits.
However, resolving the extent, diversity, and quantitative impact of SVs has been …

Assessing and advancing the safety of CRISPR-Cas tools: from DNA to RNA editing

J Tao, DE Bauer, R Chiarle - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas gene editing has revolutionized experimental molecular biology over the past
decade and holds great promise for the treatment of human genetic diseases. Here we …

An engineered prime editor with enhanced editing efficiency in plants

Y Zong, Y Liu, C Xue, B Li, X Li, Y Wang, J Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prime editing is a versatile genome-editing technology, but it suffers from low editing
efficiency. In the present study, we introduce optimized prime editors with substantially …

High-efficiency prime editing with optimized, paired pegRNAs in plants

Q Lin, S **, Y Zong, H Yu, Z Zhu, G Liu, L Kou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prime editing (PE) applications are limited by low editing efficiency. Here we show that
designing prime binding sites with a melting temperature of 30° C leads to optimal …

Conventional and molecular techniques from simple breeding to speed breeding in crop plants: recent advances and future outlook

S Ahmar, RA Gill, KH Jung, A Faheem… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
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 …