Cereal crops, including triticeae species (barley, wheat, rye), as well as edible cereals
(wheat, corn, rice, oat, rye, sorghum), are significant suppliers for human consumption …

Durable disease resistance is a key component of global food security, and combining
resistance genes into “pyramids” is an important way to increase durability of resistance. The …

Theobroma cacao, the source of cocoa, suffers significant losses to a variety of pathogens
resulting in reduced incomes for millions of farmers in developing countries. Development of …

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-
associated protein 9 (Cas9) has been reported for precise genome modification in many …

Key message We proposed an ensemble convolutional neural network model to identify
sgRNA high on-target activity in four crops and we used one-hot encoding and k-mers for …

Key message We present novel observations of high-specificity SpCas9 variants, sgRNA
expression strategies based on mutant sgRNA scaffold and tRNA processing system, and …

Plant viruses are known to infect most economically important crops and pose a major threat
to global food security. Currently, few resistant host phenotypes have been delineated, and …

Genome editing techniques, especially the CRISPR/Cas technology, increase the
possibilities and the speed of altering genetic material in organisms. So-called genome …

The acceptance of new crop varieties by consumers is contingent on the presence of
consumer-preferred traits, which include sensory attributes, nutritional value, industrial …

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 …