Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years
one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean …

According to Darwin's theory, endless evolution leads to a revolution. One such example is
the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)–Cas system, an …

Genome editing (GE) has revolutionized biological research through the new ability to
precisely edit the genomes of living organisms. In recent years, various GE tools have been …

Lipid-derived jasmonates (JAs) play a crucial role in a variety of plant development and
defense mechanisms. In recent years, significant progress has been made toward …

Since it was first recognized in bacteria and archaea as a mechanism for innate viral
immunity in the early 2010s, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats …

Genome-editing tools provide advanced biotechnological techniques that enable the
precise and efficient targeted modification of an organism's genome. Genome-editing …

Background It is a long-standing goal of scientists and breeders to precisely control a gene
for studying its function as well as improving crop yield, quality, and tolerance to various …

During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment
of diverse approaches for achieving more stress‐tolerant and climate‐flexible crops and …

The viable community of microorganisms in the rhizosphere significantly impacts the
physiological development and vitality of plants. The assembly and functional capacity of the …

Climate change is a threat to global food security due to the reduction of crop productivity
around the globe. Food security is a matter of concern for stakeholders and policymakers as …