Biomass for a sustainable bioeconomy: An overview of world biomass production and utilization

M Antar, D Lyu, M Nazari, A Shah, X Zhou… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Given both the ongoing expansion of world population and development of climate change
conditions, it is increasingly imperative to develop and deploy sustainable biomass …

Delivery strategies of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system for therapeutic applications

C Liu, L Zhang, H Liu, K Cheng - Journal of controlled release, 2017 - Elsevier
The CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing system is a part of the adaptive immune system in
archaea and bacteria to defend against invasive nucleic acids from phages and plasmids …

Past and future use of wild relatives in crop breeding

H Dempewolf, G Baute, J Anderson, B Kilian… - Crop …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wild species related to agricultural crops (crop wild relatives, or CWR) can increase the
adaptive capacity of agricultural systems around the world. They represent a large pool of …

Genomics, physiology, and molecular breeding approaches for improving salt tolerance

AM Ismail, T Horie - Annual review of plant biology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Salt stress reduces land and water productivity and contributes to poverty and food
insecurity. Increased salinization caused by human practices and climate change is …

First Report of CRISPR/Cas9 Mediated DNA-Free Editing of 4CL and RVE7 Genes in Chickpea Protoplasts

S Badhan, AS Ball, N Mantri - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The current genome editing system Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic
Repeats Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has already confirmed its proficiency, adaptability, and …

Efficient targeted mutagenesis of rice and tobacco genomes using Cpf1 from Francisella novicida

A Endo, M Masafumi, H Kaya, S Toki - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
CRISPR/Cas9 systems are nowadays applied extensively to effect genome editing in
various organisms including plants. CRISPR from Prevotella and Francisella 1 (Cpf1) is a …

Osmoprotection in plants under abiotic stresses: New insights into a classical phenomenon

F Zulfiqar, NA Akram, M Ashraf - Planta, 2020 - Springer
Main conclusion Plant osmoprotectants protect against abiotic stresses. Introgression of
osmoprotectant genes into crop plants via genetic engineering is an important strategy in …

Genetic engineering of microalgae for enhanced biorefinery capabilities

M Fayyaz, KW Chew, PL Show, TC Ling, IS Ng… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microalgae-based bioproducts are in limelight because of their promising future, novel
characteristics, the current situation of population needs, and rising prices of rapidly …

CRISPR/dC as9 platforms in plants: strategies and applications beyond genome editing

M Moradpour, SNA Abdulah - Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) and Cas9‐associated
protein systems provide a powerful genetic manipulation tool that can drive plant research …

Genome editing in rice: recent advances, challenges, and future implications

R Mishra, RK Joshi, K Zhao - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the major food source for more than three billion people of the
world. In the last few decades, the classical, mutational, and molecular breeding approaches …