CRISPR/Cas Genome Editing and Precision Plant Breeding in Agriculture

• Published in: Annual review of plant biology Vol. 70; p. 667
• Main Authors: Chen, Kunling, Wang, Yanpeng, Zhang, Rui, Zhang, Huawei, Gao, Caixia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 29.04.2019
• Subjects: Breeding; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats; CRISPR-Cas Systems; Gene Editing; Genome, Plant; Plant Breeding; genome editing; trait improvement; CRISPR/Cas; precision plant breeding

Enhanced agricultural production through innovative breeding technology is urgently needed to increase access to nutritious foods worldwide. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas genome editing enable efficient targeted modification in most crops, thus promising to accelerate crop improvement. Here, we revi...