To meet increasing global food demand, breeders and scientists aim to improve the yield
and quality of major food crops. Plant diseases threaten food security and are expected to …

Since it was first recognized in bacteria and archaea as a mechanism for innate viral
immunity in the early 2010s, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats …

Plants are constantly exposed to a wide range of potential pathogens and to protect
themselves, have developed a variety of chemical and physical defense mechanisms …

Climate change is a threat to global food security due to the reduction of crop productivity
around the globe. Food security is a matter of concern for stakeholders and policymakers as …

Genome editing technology has rapidly evolved to knock-out genes, create targeted genetic
variation, install precise insertion/deletion and single nucleotide changes, and perform large …

Agriculture is an important source of human food. However, current agricultural practices
need modernizing and strengthening to fulfill the increasing food requirements of the …

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 …

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

The narrow genetic base of tomato poses serious challenges in breeding. Hence, with the
advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated …

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