A detailed landscape of CRISPR-Cas-mediated plant disease and pest management

S Karmakar, P Das, D Panda, K Xie, MJ Baig, KA Molla - Plant Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Genome editing technology has rapidly evolved to knock-out genes, create targeted genetic
variation, install precise insertion/deletion and single nucleotide changes, and perform large …

Plant base editing and prime editing: the current status and future perspectives

J Li, C Zhang, Y He, S Li, L Yan, Y Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Precise replacement of an allele with an elite allele controlling an important agronomic trait
in a predefined manner by gene editing technologies is highly desirable in crop …

Discovery of deaminase functions by structure-based protein clustering

J Huang, Q Lin, H Fei, Z He, H Xu, Y Li, K Qu, P Han… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The elucidation of protein function and its exploitation in bioengineering have greatly
advanced the life sciences. Protein mining efforts generally rely on amino acid sequences …

Boosting plant genome editing with a versatile CRISPR-Combo system

C Pan, G Li, AA Malzahn, Y Cheng, B Leyson… - Nature Plants, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9, its derived base editors and CRISPR activation systems have greatly aided
genome engineering in plants. However, these systems are mostly used separately, leaving …

Efficient and versatile multiplex prime editing in hexaploid wheat

P Ni, Y Zhao, X Zhou, Z Liu, Z Huang, Z Ni, Q Sun… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Prime editing is limited by low efficiency in plants. Here, we develop an upgraded
engineered plant prime editor in hexaploid wheat, ePPEplus, by introducing a V223A …

How could the use of crop wild relatives in breeding increase the adaptation of crops to marginal environments?

JP Renzi, CJ Coyne, J Berger, E von Wettberg… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Advances in crop breeding through precision genome editing

G Nerkar, S Devarumath, M Purankar, A Kumar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The global climate change and unfavourable abiotic and biotic factors are limiting
agricultural productivity and therefore intensifying the challenges for crop scientists to meet …

Effector target-guided engineering of an integrated domain expands the disease resistance profile of a rice NLR immune receptor

JHR Maidment, M Shimizu, AR Bentham, S Vera… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
A subset of plant intracellular NLR immune receptors detect effector proteins, secreted by
phytopathogens to promote infection, through unconventional integrated domains which …

New possibilities for trait improvement via mobile CRISPR-RNA

QU Zaman, A Raza, RA Gill, MA Hussain… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR/Cas9 gene technology is transported as RNA from transgenic roots to distal parts of
unmodified grafted scion, where it is translated into proteins to induce heritable mutagenesis …

Hypercompact adenine base editors based on a Cas12f variant guided by engineered RNA

DY Kim, Y Chung, Y Lee, D Jeong, KH Park… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Cas12f is a hypercompact type V, Cas12 family member. Previously, we reported a set of
engineered guide RNAs supporting high indel efficiency for Cas12f1 in human cells. Here …