CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects

Several plant pathogens severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food security. In order to cope with this challenge, genetic improvement of plant disease resistance is required for sustainable agricultural production, for which conventional breeding is unlikely to do enoug...

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Main Authors: Ahmad, Shakeel, Wei, Xiangjin, Sheng, Zhonghua, Hu, Peisong, Tang, Shaoqing
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford University Press 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164567
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author Ahmad, Shakeel
Wei, Xiangjin
Sheng, Zhonghua
Hu, Peisong
Tang, Shaoqing
author_browse Ahmad, Shakeel
Hu, Peisong
Sheng, Zhonghua
Tang, Shaoqing
Wei, Xiangjin
author_facet Ahmad, Shakeel
Wei, Xiangjin
Sheng, Zhonghua
Hu, Peisong
Tang, Shaoqing
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description Several plant pathogens severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food security. In order to cope with this challenge, genetic improvement of plant disease resistance is required for sustainable agricultural production, for which conventional breeding is unlikely to do enough. Luckily, genome editing systems that particularly clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has revolutionized crop improvement by enabling robust and precise targeted genome modifications. It paves the way towards new methods for genetic improvement of plant disease resistance and accelerates resistance breeding. In this review, the challenges, limitations and prospects for conventional breeding and the applications of CRISPR/Cas9 system for the development of transgene-free disease-resistant crops are discussed.
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spelling CGSpace1645672026-01-06T12:03:45Z CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects Ahmad, Shakeel Wei, Xiangjin Sheng, Zhonghua Hu, Peisong Tang, Shaoqing general medicine Several plant pathogens severely affect crop yield and quality, thereby threatening global food security. In order to cope with this challenge, genetic improvement of plant disease resistance is required for sustainable agricultural production, for which conventional breeding is unlikely to do enough. Luckily, genome editing systems that particularly clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has revolutionized crop improvement by enabling robust and precise targeted genome modifications. It paves the way towards new methods for genetic improvement of plant disease resistance and accelerates resistance breeding. In this review, the challenges, limitations and prospects for conventional breeding and the applications of CRISPR/Cas9 system for the development of transgene-free disease-resistant crops are discussed. 2020-01-22 2024-12-19T12:54:02Z 2024-12-19T12:54:02Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164567 en Oxford University Press Tang, Shaoqing. 2020. CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects. Briefings in Functional Genomics, Volume 19 no. 1 p. 26-39
spellingShingle general medicine
Ahmad, Shakeel
Wei, Xiangjin
Sheng, Zhonghua
Hu, Peisong
Tang, Shaoqing
CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects
title CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects
title_full CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects
title_fullStr CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects
title_full_unstemmed CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects
title_short CRISPR/Cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants: recent progress, limitations and future prospects
title_sort crispr cas9 for development of disease resistance in plants recent progress limitations and future prospects
topic general medicine
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164567
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