Genome Editing: New Antiviral Weapon for Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 304
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture in the 21st century faces the serious challenge of providing food supply in sufficient quantity and quality to the exploding human population, despite shrinking croplands and increasingly extreme weather conditions. In the future, agriculture can only meet this task if productivity is increased substantially. Of the biotic factors that threaten food security, the most serious ones are viral diseases. Plants have evolved numerous defensive mechanisms to fight off viral infections. These, however, frequently prove insufficient to ensure the safety of the yield. As a consequence, the application of a variety of plant protection measures has become necessary. Of these, the conventional ones (e.g., the use of pesticides) seriously burden the environment.
This Special Issue of Plants aspires to present cutting-edge studies on the application of genome editing technologies to approach problems raised in the following research areas: (1) understanding of the basic mechanisms of plant antiviral measures, (2) engineering of virus-resistant plants, (3) direct inhibition of virus replication by targeting viral nucleic acids, and (4) virus diagnostics. The presented data will hopefully provide novel incentives to confront the pressing issues of modern agriculture.
Dr. Károly Fãtyol
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genome editing
- CRISPR
- RNA interference
- plant–virus interactions
- virus resistance
- plant viruses
- virus diagnostics
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