Land plants are exposed to not only biotic stresses such as pathogen infection and
herbivore wounding, but abiotic stresses such as cold, heat, drought, and salt. Elaborate …

Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Genome-editing tools provide advanced biotechnological techniques that enable the
precise and efficient targeted modification of an organism's genome. Genome-editing …

Increasing agricultural productivity via modern breeding strategies is of prime interest to
attain global food security. An array of biotic and abiotic stressors affect productivity as well …

User-friendly tools for robust transcriptional activation of endogenous genes are highly
demanded in plants. We previously showed that a dCas9-VP64 system consisting of the …

Synthetic biology seeks to create new biological systems, including user-designed plants
and plant cells. These systems can be employed for a variety of purposes, ranging from …

The ability to efficiently inactivate or replace genes in model organisms allowed a rapid
expansion of our understanding of many of the genetic, biochemical, molecular and cellular …

Genome editing is a relevant, versatile, and preferred tool for crop improvement, as well as
for functional genomics. In this review, we summarize the advances in gene-editing …

Many genome editing tools have been developed and new ones are anticipated; some have
been extensively applied in plant genetics, biotechnology and breeding, especially the …

Basic research has provided a much better understanding of the genetic networks and
regulatory hierarchies in plants. To meet the challenges of agriculture, we must be able to …