There is intense interest in using genome editing technologies to domesticate wild plants, or
accelerate the improvement of weakly domesticated crops, in de novo domestication. Here …

The classic domestication scenario for grains and fruits has been portrayed as the lucky
fixation of major-effect “domestication genes.” Characterization of these genes plus recent …

Genome editing technology encompasses a revolutionary set of molecular tools that holds
the potential to improve human health, unlocking improvements in medicine and agriculture …

The domestication of new crops would promote agricultural diversity and could provide a
solution to many of the problems associated with intensive agriculture. We suggest here that …

Crop domestication has a tremendous impact on socioeconomic conditions and human
civilization. Modern cultivars were domesticated from their wild progenitors thousands of …

Domestication of orphan crops could be explored by editing their genomes. Genome editing
has a lot of promise for enhancing agricultural output, and there is a lot of interest in …

Current global agricultural production must feed over 7 billion people. However, productivity
varies greatly across the globe and is under threat from both increased competitions for land …

Creating crops with resistance to drought, soil salinity and insect damage, that
simultaneously have higher nutritional quality, is challenging to conventional breeding due …

Products of genome editing as the most promising “New Plant Breeding Technology”(NPBT)
have made the transition from the lab to the market in a short time. Globally, research …

The de novo domestication has the potential to rapidly capitalize on desirable traits of wild
plants. In this issue of Cell, Yu et al. report a route of de novo domestication of an …