Advances in Genome Editing Technologies for Crop Improvement and Disease Resistance
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant-genome editing; plant biotechnology; agriculture and agribusiness; plant molecular biology and plant science; phytopathology
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Interests: plant biotechnology; food security; crop nutritional quality; agronomic biodiversity; plant adaptation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We kindly invite you to contribute to this Special Issue that focuses on plant genome editing for the improvement of agronomic traits such as growth, yield, and ability to withstand environmental conditions, as well as plant resistance to diseases. This issue aims to disseminate innovative scientific articles and critical review studies on the advances achieved or still necessary with plant genome editing. Furthermore, this issue aims to increasingly strengthen initiatives to effectively transfer promising technologies from the laboratory to the field (lab-to-field), promoting regenerative agriculture, generating opportunities for applied innovation, increasing global food production, and improving its nutritional quality. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your paper within the journal's standards (text, sections, tables, figures, references, others), prepared with sufficient rigor, specificity, and depth, which will be rigorously evaluated by the guest editor and then reviewed critically by at least two ad hoc experts.
Dr. Marcos Fernando Basso
Dr. Aurelia Scarano
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- meganucleases
- ZNFs
- TALENs
- CRISPR/Cas
- CRISPRa
- CRISPRi
- prime editing
- base editing
- genome editing
- crops
- agronomic trait
- plant disease
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