Mankind has recognized the value of land plants as renewable sources of food, medicine,
and materials for millennia. Throughout human history, agricultural methods were …

The terms genome engineering, genome editing, and gene editing, refer to modifications
(insertions, deletions, substitutions) in the genome of a living organism. The most widely …

Synthetic biology offers the opportunity to build solutions for improved capture and
conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) that outcompete those evolved by nature. Here we …

CRISPR technology, which is widely used for plant genome editing, will accelerate the
breeding of food crops beyond what was imaginable before its development. Here we …

During the last years, a great effort has been dedicated at the development and employment
of diverse approaches for achieving more stress‐tolerant and climate‐flexible crops and …

Very well into the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0), humankind can
hardly distinguish between what is artificial and what is natural (eg, man‐made virus and …

Chromoplast-specific lycopene β-cyclase (LCYb2) is a critical carotenogenic enzyme, which
controls the massive accumulation of downstream carotenoids, especially provitamin A …

The global population continues to rise, as does the likelihood of reduced yields of major
food crops due to the changing climate, thus making the development of genetically …

Abstract Wheat (Triticum aestivum, 2n= 6x= 42, AABBDD) is one of the most important staple
food crops in the world. Despite the fact that wheat production has significantly increased …

Global warming, habitat loss and overexploitation of limited resources are leading to
alarming biodiversity declines. Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that display …