Engineering crops of the future: CRISPR approaches to develop climate-resilient and disease-resistant plants

SSA Zaidi, A Mahas, H Vanderschuren, MM Mahfouz - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
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 …

A detailed landscape of CRISPR-Cas-mediated plant disease and pest management

S Karmakar, P Das, D Panda, K Xie, MJ Baig, KA Molla - Plant Science, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

New plant breeding technologies for food security

SSA Zaidi, H Vanderschuren, M Qaim, MM Mahfouz… - Science, 2019 - science.org
A world without hunger is possible but only if food production is sustainably increased and
distributed and extreme poverty is eliminated. Globally, most of the poor and …

Can genomics boost productivity of orphan crops?

RK Varshney, JM Ribaut, ES Buckler, R Tuberosa… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
MARS7 allows the improvement of polygenic traits by stacking favorable alleles at a large
number (10–40) of the most significant loci involved in the expression of the target traits …

Modeling suggests gene editing combined with vaccination could eliminate a persistent disease in livestock

GEL Petersen, JB Buntjer, FS Hely… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Recent breakthroughs in gene-editing technologies that can render individual animals fully
resistant to infections may offer unprecedented opportunities for controlling future epidemics …

Efficient genetic transformation and regeneration of a farmer-preferred cassava cultivar from Ghana

W Elegba, E McCallum, W Gruissem… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cassava is an important staple crop that provides food and income for about 700 million
Africans. Cassava productivity in Africa is limited by viral diseases, mainly cassava mosaic …

Unlocking the potential of tropical root crop biotechnology in east Africa by establishing a genetic transformation platform for local farmer-preferred cassava cultivars

E Nyaboga, J Njiru, E Nguu, W Gruissem… - Frontiers in plant …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Cassava genetic transformation capacity is still mostly restricted to advanced laboratories in
the USA, Europe and China; and its implementation and maintenance in African laboratories …

Building an alliance for biotechnology in Africa

R Schurman - Journal of Agrarian Change, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars and activists working from within a political economy perspective often fail to
explore the distinct motives, interests and behaviours of powerful actors who appear to be …

Examining Korean and Korean American older adults' perceived acceptability of home-based monitoring technologies in the context of culture

J Chung, HJ Thompson, J Joe, A Hall… - Informatics for Health …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Despite the increasing use of home-based monitoring technologies by older
adults, few studies have examined older adults' acceptance of these technologies …

Farmers' knowledge and opinions towards bollgard II® implementation in cotton production in western Burkina Faso

EIR Sanou, G Gheysen, B Koulibaly, C Roelofs… - New …, 2018 - Elsevier
In 2008, the commercial cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) cotton (Bollgard II®) started
in Burkina Faso. The adoption rate increased rapidly in subsequent years to reach around …