Sustainable intensification of agriculture in Africa is essential for accomplishing food and
nutritional security and addressing the rising concerns of climate change. There is an urgent …

Over the past decades, numerous efforts were made towards the improvement of cereal
crops mostly employing traditional or molecular breeding approaches. The current scenario …

Vegetable crops are known as protective foods due to their potential role in a balanced
human diet, especially for vegetarians as they are a rich source of vitamins and minerals …

Population growth and climate change demand the constant development of new crop
varieties that can produce higher yields, and better organoleptic and nutritional value under …

Genome editing, particularly using of site-directed nucleases such as the CRISPR system,
has spread rapidly through the biological sciences. Genome editing in crops could …

The world population is expected to increase from 7.3 to 9.7 billion by 2050. Pest outbreak
and increased abiotic stresses due to climate change pose a high risk to tropical crop …

The world has witnessed a great period of food crop productivity growth in the past 50 years.
Notably, the introduction of crop genetic improvement technologies into the developing …

Crop improvement is very essential to meet the increasing global food demands and
enhance food nutrition. Conventional crop-breeding methods have certain limitations such …

Genome-editing, a recent technological advancement in the field of life sciences, is one of
the great examples of techniques used to explore the understanding of the biological …

Recent developments in targeted genome editing accelerated genetic research and opened
new potentials to improve the crops for better yields and quality. Genome editing techniques …