Crossbreeding, mutation breeding, and traditional transgenic breeding take much time to
improve desirable characters/traits. CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing (GE) is a game …

Developing more crops able to sustainably produce high yields when grown under
biotic/abiotic stresses is an important goal, if crop production and food security are to be …

Key message Our review has described principles and functional importance of CRISPR-
Cas9 with emphasis on the recent advancements, such as CRISPR-Cpf1, base editing (BE) …

Climate change poses a serious threat to global agricultural activity and food production.
Plant genome editing technologies have been widely used to develop crop varieties with …

The daunting task of feeding an ever-growing population is an immense challenge for the
contemporary scientific community, especially in view of the rapidly changing climate …

Abiotic stress such as cold, drought, saline-alkali stress and biotic stress including disease
and insect pest are the main factors that affect plant growth and limit agricultural productivity …

Abiotic stresses such as temperature (high/low), drought, salinity, and others make the
environment hostile to plants. Abiotic stressors adversely affect plant growth and …

The availability of genome sequences for several crops and advances in genome editing
approaches has opened up possibilities to breed for almost any given desirable trait …

Abiotic stresses, including drought, salinity, cold, heat, and heavy metals, extensively
reducing global agricultural production. Traditional breeding approaches and transgenic …

Main conclusion Precise genome engineering approaches could be perceived as a second
paradigm for targeted trait improvement in crop plants, with the potential to overcome the …