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Plant genome engineering from lab to field-a Keystone Symposia report

Cable, Jennifer; Ronald, Pamela C.; Voytas, Daniel; Zhang, Feng; Levy, Avraham A.; Takatsuka, Ayumu; Arimura, Shin-ichi; Jacobsen, Steven E.; Toki, Seiichi; Toda, Erika; Gao, Caixia; Zhu, Jian-Kang; Boch, Jens; Van Eck, Joyce; Mahfouz, Magdy; Andersson, Mariette; Fridman, Eyal; Weiss, Trevor; Wang, Kan; Qi, Yiping;
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Abstract

Facing the challenges of the world's food sources posed by a growing global population and a warming climate will require improvements in plant breeding and technology. Enhancing crop resiliency and yield via genome engineering will undoubtedly be a key part of the solution. The advent of new tools, such as CRIPSR/Cas, has ushered in significant advances in plant genome engineering. However, several serious challenges remain in achieving this goal. Among them are efficient transformation and plant regeneration for most crop species, low frequency of some editing applications, and high attrition rates. On March 8 and 9, 2021, experts in plant genome engineering and breeding from academia and industry met virtually for the Keystone eSymposium "Plant Genome Engineering: From Lab to Field" to discuss advances in genome editing tools, plant transformation, plant breeding, and crop trait development, all vital for transferring the benefits of novel technologies to the field.

Keywords

CRISPR; Cas; NHEJ; HDR; MMEJ; DNA repair; multiplex genome editing; plant breeding; plant genome editing; plant genome engineering; prime editing; TALENs

Published in

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
2021, Volume: 1506, number: 1, pages: 35-54
Publisher: WILEY

    Sustainable Development Goals

    End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Genetics

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14675

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/113453