[HTML][HTML] Genome engineering for crop improvement and future agriculture

C Gao - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Feeding the ever-growing population is a major challenge, especially in light of rapidly
changing climate conditions. Genome editing is set to revolutionize plant breeding and …

Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors

KA Molla, S Sretenovic, KC Bansal, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The development of CRISPR–Cas systems has sparked a genome editing revolution in
plant genetics and breeding. These sequence-specific RNA-guided nucleases can induce …

Applications of CRISPR–Cas in agriculture and plant biotechnology

H Zhu, C Li, C Gao - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The prokaryote-derived CRISPR–Cas genome editing technology has altered plant
molecular biology beyond all expectations. Characterized by robustness and high target …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Development of plant prime-editing systems for precise genome editing

R Xu, J Li, X Liu, T Shan, R Qin, P Wei - Plant Communications, 2020 - cell.com
Prime-editing systems have the capability to perform efficient and precise genome editing in
human cells. In this study, we first developed a plant prime editor 2 (pPE2) system and test …

Evidence and impacts of nanoplastic accumulation on crop grains

M Jiang, B Wang, R Ye, N Yu, Z Xie, Y Hua… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoplastics are emerging pollutants of global concern. Agricultural soil is becoming a
primary sink for nanoplastics generated from plastic debris. The uptake and accumulation of …

Genome editing for plant research and crop improvement

X Zhan, Y Lu, JK Zhu, JR Botella - Journal of Integrative Plant …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) has had a
profound impact on plant biology, and crop improvement. In this review, we summarize the …

[HTML][HTML] High-efficiency and multiplex adenine base editing in plants using new TadA variants

D Yan, B Ren, L Liu, F Yan, S Li, G Wang, W Sun… - Molecular plant, 2021 - cell.com
Recently reported adenine base editors (ABEs) exhibit powerful potential for targeted gene
correction as well as developing gain-of-function mutants and novel germplasms for both …

[HTML][HTML] Multiplex genome-editing technologies for revolutionizing plant biology and crop improvement

M Abdelrahman, Z Wei, JS Rohila, K Zhao - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Multiplex genome-editing (MGE) technologies are recently developed versatile
bioengineering tools for modifying two or more specific DNA loci in a genome with high …

Identification of herbicide resistance OsACC1 mutations via in planta prime-editing-library screening in rice

R Xu, X Liu, J Li, R Qin, P Wei - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
Base-editing-library-induced high density nucleotide substitutions have been applied to
screen functional mutations in plants. However, due to limitations in the scope and …