Poplar (Populus) is a genus of woody plants of great economic value. Due to the growing
economic importance of poplar, there is a need to ensure its stable growth by increasing its …

Genome editing has many potential uses in forestry because it makes it possible to change
the genes that control tree growth, the type of biomass they make, how they respond to …

Plants are influenced by various biotic and abiotic stresses, which affect survival, growth,
and yield. Among these, plant pathogens including oomycetes, fungi, bacteria, viruses, and …

Pathogenic microbes are responsible for severe production losses in crops worldwide. The
use of disease resistant crop varieties can be a sustainable approach to meet the food …

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) system is a
prokaryotic adaptive immune system that has the ability to identify specific locations on the …

Millets are a group of important drought-resistant “nutri-cereals” commonly cultivated in arid
and semi-arid areas. A renewed focus on increasing their production and highlighting …

Powdery Mildew (PM) caused by fungal pathogen Oidium neolycopersici (O. neolycopersici)
affects both greenhouse and field-grown tomato production. Resistance to PM disease can …

Background CRISPR has been increasingly used for plant genetic improvements because
of its high efficiency and precision. Recently, the authors have reported the possibility of …

Although the CRISPR/Cas9 system has been successfully used for crop breeding, its
application remains limited in forest trees. Here, we describe an efficient gene editing …

In this Special Issue [1], the focus is on recent research and developments in the use of
biotechnological techniques such as genetic engineering, genome editing and genomics to …