Genome engineering for crop improvement and future agriculture

C Gao - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Feeding the ever-growing population is a major challenge, especially in light of rapidly
changing climate conditions. Genome editing is set to revolutionize plant breeding and …

Recent advances in phyto-combined remediation of heavy metal pollution in soil

S Deng, X Zhang, Y Zhu, R Zhuo - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
The global industrialization and modernization have witnessed a rapid progress made in
agricultural production, along with the issue of soil heavy metal (HM) pollution, which has …

Targeted plant improvement through genome editing: from laboratory to field

D Miladinovic, D Antunes, K Yildirim, A Bakhsh… - Plant cell reports, 2021 - Springer
Key message This review illustrates how far we have come since the emergence of GE
technologies and how they could be applied to obtain superior and sustainable crop …

Expert opinions on the regulation of plant genome editing

R Lassoued, PWB Phillips, DM Macall… - Plant Biotechnology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global food security is largely affected by factors such as environmental (eg drought,
flooding), social (eg gender inequality), socio‐economic (eg overpopulation, poverty) and …

Genome editing for sustainable crop improvement and mitigation of biotic and abiotic stresses

MF Hamdan, CKS Karlson, EY Teoh, SE Lau, BC Tan - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
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 …

Herbicide resistance: another hot agronomic trait for plant genome editing

A Hussain, X Ding, M Alariqi, H Manghwar, F Hui, Y Li… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Weeds have continually interrupted crop plants since their domestication, leading to a
greater yield loss compared to diseases and pests that necessitated the practice of weed …

Beyond the Genome: Genetically modified crops in Africa and the implications for Genome Editing

JS Rock, MA Schnurr, A Kingiri, D Glover… - Development and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Genome editing—a plant‐breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic
traits within living organisms—has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals …

Genome engineering technology for durable disease resistance: Recent progress and future outlooks for sustainable agriculture

Q Ali, C Yu, A Hussain, M Ali, S Ahmar… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Crop production worldwide is under pressure from multiple factors, including reductions in
available arable land and sources of water, along with the emergence of new pathogens …

Canadian consumers' perceptions of sustainability of food innovations

R Lassoued, J Music, S Charlebois, SJ Smyth - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Educated consumer food choices not only enhance personal health but can also contribute
to environmental, economic, and social well-being, as well as food sustainability. This …

Role of information in consumers' preferences for eco-sustainable genetic improvements in plant breeding

M Borrello, L Cembalo, R Vecchio - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Consumers' preferences for products derived from genetic improvements and innovations in
plant breeding are often conditioned by technophobia and negative public imaginaries. The …