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CRISPR-Cas9 directed genome engineering for enhancing salt stress tolerance in rice

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Title CRISPR-Cas9 directed genome engineering for enhancing salt stress tolerance in rice
 
Creator Farhat, Sufia
Jain, Neha
Singh, Nisha
Sreevathsa, Rohini
Dash, Prasanta K.
Rai, Rhitu
Yadav, Sandeep
Kumar, Pramod
Sarkar, Ananda K.
Jain, Ajay
Singh, Nagendra K.
Rai, Vandna
 
Subject Abiotic stress
CRISPR/Cas9
Gene editing
Rice
Transporters
Salinity
 
Description Accepted date: 6 May 2019
Crop productivity in rice is harshly limited due to high concentration of salt in the soil. To understand the
intricacies of the mechanism it is important to unravel the key pathways operating inside the plant cell.
Emerging state-of-the art technologies have provided the tools to discover the key components inside the plant
cell for salt tolerance. Among the molecular entities, transcription factors and/or other important components of
sensing and signaling cascades have been the attractive targets and the role of NHX and SOS1 transporters amply
described. Not only marker assisted programs but also transgenic approaches by using reverse genetic strategies
(knockout or knockdown) or overexpression have been extensively used to engineer rice crop. CRISPR/Cas is an
attractive paradigm and provides the feasibility for manipulating several genes simultaneously. Here, in this
review we highlight some of the molecular entities that could be potentially targeted for generating rice
amenable to sustain growth under high salinity conditions by employing CRISPR/Cas. We also try to address key
questions for rice salt stress tolerance other than what is already known.
This work is supported Indian Council of Agricultural Research for
financial support under the NPTC project (NPTC/2049-3021). We also
thanks Dr. S. K. Pradhan from NRRI Cuttack and Mr. Soumyadeep
Mukharjee for assisting in preparing Figure 1.
 
Date 2019-06-20T06:17:22Z
2019-06-20T06:17:22Z
2019
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 96: 91-99
1084-9521
http://223.31.159.10:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/959
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1084952118301198?via%3Dihub
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2019.05.003
 
Language en_US
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier B.V.