Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

J Bailey-Serres, JE Parker, EA Ainsworth, GED Oldroyd… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world's population by 2050.
Greater and more consistent crop production must be achieved against a backdrop of …

Plant immunity in signal integration between biotic and abiotic stress responses

Y Saijo, EP Loo - New Phytologist, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plants constantly monitor and cope with the fluctuating environment while hosting a diversity
of plant‐inhabiting microbes. The mode and outcome of plant–microbe interactions …

Broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight in rice using genome editing

R Oliva, C Ji, G Atienza-Grande, JC Huguet-Tapia… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bacterial blight of rice is an important disease in Asia and Africa. The pathogen,
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), secretes one or more of six known transcription …

Plant SWEETs: from sugar transport to plant–pathogen interaction and more unexpected physiological roles

R Breia, A Conde, H Badim, AM Fortes… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters (SWEETs) have important roles in
numerous physiological mechanisms where sugar efflux is critical, including phloem …

[HTML][HTML] The structure of the membrane protein of SARS-CoV-2 resembles the sugar transporter SemiSWEET

S Thomas - Pathogens and Immunity, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
responsible for the disease COVID-19 that has decimated the health and economy of our …

CRISPR crops: plant genome editing toward disease resistance

T Langner, S Kamoun, K Belhaj - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Genome editing by sequence-specific nucleases (SSNs) has revolutionized biology by
enabling targeted modifications of genomes. Although routine plant genome editing …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated mutation of OsSWEET14 in rice cv. Zhonghua11 confers resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae without yield penalty

X Zeng, Y Luo, NTQ Vu, S Shen, K Xia, M Zhang - BMC Plant Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Bacterial blight of rice, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is a
devastating rice disease in Southeast Asia and West Africa. OsSWEET14, encoding a sugar …

Xa7, a new executor R gene that confers durable and broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight disease in rice

X Chen, P Liu, L Mei, X He, L Chen, H Liu, S Shen… - Plant …, 2021 - cell.com
Bacterial blight (BB) is a globally devastating rice disease caused by Xanthomonas oryzae
pv. oryzae (Xoo). The use of disease resistance (R) genes in rice breeding is an effective …

Stop helping pathogens: engineering plant susceptibility genes for durable resistance

H Garcia-Ruiz, B Szurek… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Alternatives to protect crops against diseases are desperately needed to secure world food
production and make agriculture more sustainable. Genetic resistance to pathogens utilized …

Structure, evolution and diverse physiological roles of SWEET sugar transporters in plants

GS Jeena, S Kumar, RK Shukla - Plant molecular biology, 2019 - Springer
Key message Present review describes the structure, evolution, transport mechanism and
physiological functions of SWEETs. Their application using TALENs and CRISPR/CAS9 …