Plants are challenged incessantly by several biotic and abiotic stresses during their entire
growth period. As with other biotic stress factors, insect pests have also posed serious …

The advantages of high input agriculture are fading away due to degenerating soil health
and adverse effects of climate change. Safeguarding crop yields in the changing …

Increasing agricultural productivity via modern breeding strategies is of prime interest to
attain global food security. An array of biotic and abiotic stressors affect productivity as well …

The conventional breeding of crops struggles to keep up with increasing food needs and
ever-adapting pests and pathogens. Global climate changes have imposed another layer of …

Crossbreeding, mutation breeding, and traditional transgenic breeding take much time to
improve desirable characters/traits. CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing (GE) is a game …

Climate change poses a serious threat to global agricultural activity and food production.
Plant genome editing technologies have been widely used to develop crop varieties with …

The global climate change and unfavourable abiotic and biotic factors are limiting
agricultural productivity and therefore intensifying the challenges for crop scientists to meet …

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

Genome editing refers to a process by which a specific chromosomal sequence is changed.
The edited chromosomal sequence may comprise an insertion of at least one nucleotide, a …

Genome editing aims to revolutionise plant breeding and could assist in safeguarding the
global food supply. The inclusion of a 12–40 bp recognition site makes mega nucleases the …