Study of Targeted Genome Editing for Crop Improvement
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Breeding and Genetics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 3200
Special Issue Editors
Interests: rice; transcription factor; miRNA; crop improvement; genome editing
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Interests: crop improvement; food security; plant nutrient; abiotic stress; heavy metal; rice yield and grain quality; omics technologies; genome editing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With rapid advances in genome editing systems, and ongoing research on plant functional genomics and genome editing techniques, crop improvement and breeding has entered the new era—“Precision breeding”. The precision genome editing systems, such as CRIPSPR/Cas and its derived system (base editing and prime editing), have become an important tool in the hands of breeders to get the desirable trait or new varieties.
In this Special Issue, we welcome research papers and reviews describe the targets, effects, and improvements of targeted crop genome editing for crop improvement. We encourage reports about novel editing methods and target sites for improving disease resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, yield and nutrition utilization efficiency in crops. In particular, developing and migrating novel genome editing systems to crops are highly appreciated in this Special Issue.
Dr. Bohan Liu
Guest Editor
Dr. Shuan Meng
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genome editing
- crop improvement
- CRISPR/Cas
- base editor
- prime editor
- yield
- abiotic stress
- nutrition
- disease resistance
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