Genome Editing to Prepare Plants for Increasing Stress
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Cell Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 363
Special Issue Editor
Interests: crosstalk between abiotic and biotic stress responses; biotechnological applications to make crops climate-ready or resistant to biotic stress
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change poses a great challenge to agriculture, and it is anticipated that in the near future, both abiotic and biotic stresses will increase due to global warming. Consequently, stress combinations will also increase, and at the same time, pesticides and water resources will become less available. In order to sustain high yields, plant breeding is one of the few options and recent progress concerning genome editing might be the key to achieve this goal.
The most promising tools are various CRISPR/Cas applications, but consumer acceptance and legal issues concerning regulation could be hurdles in the endeavor to encounter climate change.
This Special Issue aims to illustrate how genome editing could be deployed to address abiotic as well as biotic stresses, and in addition to original articles constituting examples how CRISPR/Cas successfully increased stress resistance, mini-reviews focusing on progress concerning abiotic stress, biotic stress or consumer acceptance/legal issues are also welcome.
Dr. Dirk Schenke
Guest Editor
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