Enhanced agricultural production through innovative breeding technology is urgently
needed to increase access to nutritious foods worldwide. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas …

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 …

Crop production is facing unprecedented challenges. Despite the fact that the food supply
has significantly increased over the past half‐century,~ 8.9 and 14.3% people are still …

Drought and heat are major abiotic stresses that reduce crop productivity and weaken global
food security, especially given the current and growing impacts of climate change and …

The application of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) for
genetic manipulation has revolutionized life science over the past few years. CRISPR was …

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

RNA-guided CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) systems have been developed in plants.
However, the simultaneous activation of multiple genes remains challenging. Here, we …

We report a comprehensive toolkit that enables targeted, specific modification of monocot
and dicot genomes using a variety of genome engineering approaches. Our reagents …

The Cas9 protein (CRISPR-associated protein 9), derived from type II CRISPR (clustered
regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) bacterial immune systems, is emerging as a …

The emergence of sequence-specific nucleases that enable genome editing is
revolutionizing basic and applied biology. Since the introduction of CRISPR–Cas9, genome …