The discovery and application of genome editing introduced a new era of plant breeding by
giving researchers efficient tools for the precise engineering of crop genomes. Here we …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is an important staple food crop worldwide; to meet the growing
nutritional requirements of the increasing population in the face of climate change …

The recently developed CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats)/Cpf1 system expands the range of genome editing and is emerging as an …

Using genetic resistance against bacterial blight (BB) caused by Xanthomonas oryzae
pathovar oryzae (Xoo) is a major objective in rice breeding programmes. Prime editing (PE) …

Crop breeding is being revolutionized by rapid progress in DNA sequencing and targeted
alteration of DNA sequences by genome editing. Here we propose a regulatory framework …

Disruption of susceptibility (S) genes in crops is an attractive breeding strategy for conferring
disease resistance,. However, S genes are implicated in many essential biological functions …

Diseases severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food security.
Genetic improvement of plant disease resistance is essential for sustainable agriculture …

Figure 1 High-efficiency targeted gene editing using TALENs.(a) Overlapping elements
targeted by two pairs (1 and 2) of designer TALENs in the Os11N3 promoter.(b–d) …

Genome editing opens up opportunities for the precise and rapid alteration of crops to boost
yields, protect against pests and diseases and enhance nutrient content. The extent to which …

Harnessing genetic diversity and the introduction of elite alleles from wild relatives or
landraces into commercial cultivars has been a major goal in crop breeding programs …