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Genome Editing Technologies for Enhancing Plant Resilience to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses - Brief Review

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Title Genome Editing Technologies for Enhancing Plant Resilience to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses - Brief Review
 
Creator Mann, Anita
Ranga, Poonam
Choudhary, Priti
Yadav, Sujata
Kaul, Noyonika
Dahiya, Avni
Prakash, Nitish Ranjan
Kumar, Ashwani
Kumar, Arvind
Sanwal, Satish Kumar
 
Subject Climate change
genome editing
Nucleases
CRISPR/Cas
 
Description Global climate change is the biggest threat to the agriculture, leading to environmental stresses thereby, reducing crop quality and yield. For a sustainable food future along with demand and supply, economic accessibility to the galloping population, a 25-70% increase in agricultural productivity is sufficient. To meet these universal targets, developing climate-resilient crops will rebalance the prevailing discourse on the agricultural narrative of food security. Although, traditional plant breeding tools have uplifted the agricultural practices for developing improved crop plants but the cumbersome duration of conventional breeding limits availability of new varieties/plants for cultivation. To exaggerate this process, the recently developed technologies of genome editing, such as CRISPR/Cas9, are accurate and efficient solutions by enabling targeted alterations in plant genomes to enhance desirable traits for crop improvement. Moreover, these gene editing technologies are preferable over GM crops due to modifications in the host genome itself than the insertion of any foreign gene into it.  Additionally, the use of SDN technology for edits pertaining to SDN-1 and SDN-2 category are categorised as non-transgenic, hence, safe to use. This review is briefly compiled including evolution of different genome editing strategies, highlighting its advantages in developing crops resistant to both biotic and abiotic stresses, e.g. salt tolerance, drought resistance, and disease resistance to ensure stable food production in a changing climate.
 
Publisher Indian Society of Soil Salinity and Water Quality, Karnal (Haryana)
 
Date 2024-11-19
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JoSSWQ/article/view/156291
10.56093/jsswq.v16i2.156291
 
Source Journal of Soil Salinity and Water Quality; Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024): Special Issue of Journal Soil Salinity & Water Quality on Restoring Salt–affected Ecologies in Changing Climate ; 180-193
0976-0806
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JoSSWQ/article/view/156291/57175
 
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