Conventional and molecular techniques from simple breeding to speed breeding in crop plants: recent advances and future outlook

S Ahmar, RA Gill, KH Jung, A Faheem… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
In most crop breeding programs, the rate of yield increment is insufficient to cope with the
increased food demand caused by a rapidly expanding global population. In plant breeding …

CRISPR/Cas genome editing and precision plant breeding in agriculture

K Chen, Y Wang, R Zhang, H Zhang… - Annual review of plant …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Enhanced agricultural production through innovative breeding technology is urgently
needed to increase access to nutritious foods worldwide. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas …

The emerging and uncultivated potential of CRISPR technology in plant science

Y Zhang, AA Malzahn, S Sretenovic, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2019 - nature.com
The application of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) for
genetic manipulation has revolutionized life science over the past few years. CRISPR was …

Applications and potential of genome editing in crop improvement

Y Zhang, K Massel, ID Godwin, C Gao - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Genome-editing tools provide advanced biotechnological techniques that enable the
precise and efficient targeted modification of an organism's genome. Genome-editing …

CRISPR/Cas: a Nobel Prize award-winning precise genome editing technology for gene therapy and crop improvement

C Li, E Brant, H Budak, B Zhang - Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Construct design for CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing in plants

MM Hassan, Y Zhang, G Yuan, K De, JG Chen… - Trends in Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
CRISPR construct design is a key step in the practice of genome editing, which includes
identification of appropriate Cas proteins, design and selection of guide RNAs (gRNAs), and …

Expanding the scope of plant genome engineering with Cas12a orthologs and highly multiplexable editing systems

Y Zhang, Q Ren, X Tang, S Liu, AA Malzahn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas12a is a promising genome editing system for targeting AT-rich genomic
regions. Comprehensive genome engineering requires simultaneous targeting of multiple …

Engineering salinity tolerance in plants: progress and prospects

SH Wani, V Kumar, T Khare, R Guddimalli, M Parveda… - Planta, 2020 - Springer
Main conclusion There is a need to integrate conceptual framework based on the current
understanding of salt stress responses with different approaches for manipulating and …

Activities and specificities of CRISPR/Cas9 and Cas12a nucleases for targeted mutagenesis in maize

K Lee, Y Zhang, BP Kleinstiver, JA Guo… - Plant biotechnology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
CRISPR/Cas9 and Cas12a (Cpf1) nucleases are two of the most powerful genome editing
tools in plants. In this work, we compared their activities by targeting maize glossy2 gene …

Application of CRISPR-Cas12a temperature sensitivity for improved genome editing in rice, maize, and Arabidopsis

AA Malzahn, X Tang, K Lee, Q Ren, S Sretenovic… - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Background CRISPR-Cas12a (formerly Cpf1) is an RNA-guided endonuclease with distinct
features that have expanded genome editing capabilities. Cas12a-mediated genome editing …