Recent advances in genome engineering are revolutionizing crop research and plant
breeding. The ability to make specific modifications to a plant's genetic material creates …

Global food security is largely affected by factors such as environmental (eg drought,
flooding), social (eg gender inequality), socio‐economic (eg overpopulation, poverty) and …

Genome editing technologies, including CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEN, are excellent genetic
modification techniques and are being proven to be powerful tools not only in the field of …

Gene-editing systems have emerged as bioengineering tools in recent years. Classical
gene-editing systems include zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like …

Site-directed nucleases (SDNs) used for targeted genome editing are powerful new tools to
introduce precise genetic changes into plants. Like traditional approaches, such as …

European R&D in plant breeding is lagging behind, bound by strict genetically modified
organism (GMO) regulations, applied to all crop varieties obtained with genome editing …

Domestication of wild plant species has provided us with crops that serve our human
nutritional needs. Advanced DNA sequencing has propelled the unveiling of underlying …

Most conventional and modern crop-improvement methods exploit natural or artificially
induced genetic variations and require laborious characterization of the progenies of …

The incredible success of crop breeding and agricultural innovation in the last century
greatly contributed to the Green Revolution, which significantly increased yields and …

Highlights•Efficient genome editing (GE) accelerates the domestication of crop wild
relatives.•New crops can be rapidly created to withstand drought, flooding, and soil …