Gene Drive and Symbiont Technologies for Control of Mosquito-Borne Diseases

GH Wang, A Hoffmann… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue and malaria, pose a significant burden to global
health. Current control strategies with insecticides are only moderately effective. Scalable …

Altering traits and fates of wild populations with Mendelian DNA sequence modifying Allele Sails

ML Johnson, BA Hay, M Maselko - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Population-scale genome modification can alter the composition or fate of wild populations.
Synthetic gene drives provide one set of tools, but their use is complicated by scientific …

[HTML][HTML] Applications of CRISPR Technologies in Forestry and Molecular Wood Biotechnology

HX Cao, D Michels, GTH Vu, O Gailing - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Forests worldwide are under increasing pressure from climate change and emerging
diseases, threatening their vital ecological and economic roles. Traditional breeding …

Genome editing in future crop protection: utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 to improve crop resistance against diseases, pests, and weeds

A Faizal, S Nugroho, AA Sembada, Y Theda… - Discover Agriculture, 2024 - Springer
Increasing population and climate change pose significant threats to global food security by
imposing stresses on plants, making them more susceptible to diseases and productivity …

A comparative assessment of self-limiting genetic control strategies for population suppression

Y Han, J Champer - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Genetic control strategies are promising solutions for control of pest populations and
invasive species. Methods utilizing repeated releases of males such as Sterile Insect …

Allele Sails: launching traits and fates into wild populations with Mendelian DNA sequence modifiers

ML Johnson, BA Hay, M Maselko - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Population-scale genome editing can be used to alter the composition or fate of wild
populations. One approach to achieving these aims utilizes a synthetic gene drive element …

Gene drive-based population suppression in the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi

X Xu, J Chen, Y Wang, Y Liu, Y Zhang, X Jia, J Yang… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Gene drives are alleles that can bias the inheritance of specific traits in target populations for
the purpose of modification or suppression. Here, we constructed a homing suppression …