Alongside the use of fertilizer and chemical control of weeds, pests, and diseases modern
breeding has been very successful in generating cultivars that have increased agricultural …

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 …

Main conclusion Present review describes the molecular tools and strategies deployed in
the trait discovery and improvement of major crops. The prospects and challenges …

Current trends in plant genetic transformation technologies, ie, designing and applying
molecules like miRNA, RNAi, and CRISPR-Cas, largely enable researchers to target specific …

Nowadays, agricultural production is strongly affected by both climate change and pathogen
attacks which seriously threaten global food security. For a long time, researchers have …

Modern genome editing (GE) techniques, which include clustered regularly interspaced
short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system …

Necrotrophic fungal pathogens of the genus Alternaria are globally recognized as one of the
most destructive plant pathogens in most of the industrially and agriculturally important crops …

The major health-care burden for the develo** world are infectious diseases where
antimicrobial agents prove to be the magical drugs to combat this. But the phenomenon of …

Abstract Yam (Dioscorea spp.) anthracnose, caused by Colletotrichum alatae, is the most
devastating fungal disease of yam in West Africa, leading to 50%–90% of tuber yield losses …

CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology has taken the scientific community by storm since its
development in 2012. First discovered in 1987, CRISPR/Cas systems act as an adaptive …