Virus-Mediated Genome Editing in Plants
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026 | Viewed by 369
Editor
Interests: plant bunyaviruses; potyviruses; potexviruses; unfolded protein response; cell biology; virus-host interactions; bioinformatics; infectious clone technology; viroids
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Dear Colleagues,
In the past five years, researchers around the globe have been working to develop new tools to achieve plant genome editing or insect genome editing, and viral vectors have been at the forefront of these efforts. The main focus of technology development includes strategies to overcome the hurdles of expressing the large Cas protein and guide RNAs, while increasing the efficiency of gene editing. These require innovations beyond the traditional approaches for constructing and stabilizing plant viral vectors to achieve gene overexpression or silencing. Cutting-edge biotechnology innovations require new approaches to new challenges and perhaps new delivery vehicles for viral vectors. Thinking outside the box may require understanding more about noncoding RNA functions as translational or replication enhances or their roles in RNA targeting. It may also require moving past the well-known viral vectors to other viral species that may be better for genome editing than the workhorse vectors that have been used for the past 20 years. This Special Issue aims to bring together new ideas and innovations that are establishing viral vectors as central tools in plant and insect genome editing.
Prof. Dr. Jeanmarie Verchot
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- genetic vectors
- viral vectors
- gene editing
- genetically modified plants
- genetically modified insects
- CRISPR-Cas systems
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