Recent Advances in Tomato Gene Editing

The use of gene-editing tools, such as zinc finger nucleases, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas, allows for the modification of physiological, morphological, and other characteristics in a wide range of crops to mitigate the negative effects of stress caused by anthropogenic climate change or biotic stresses. I...

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Published inInternational journal of molecular sciences Vol. 25; no. 5; p. 2606
Main Authors Larriba, Eduardo, Yaroshko, Olha, Pérez-Pérez, José Manuel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 23.02.2024
MDPI
Subjects
Agricultural production
Amino acids
Bacteria
Case, Gene
Climate change
Climatic changes
Corn
CRISPR
CRISPR-Cas Systems
CRISPR/Cas
Crops, Agricultural - genetics
DNA binding proteins
Efficiency
Flowers & plants
Gene Editing - methods
Genes
Genome editing
Genome, Plant
Mutation
Nucleases
plant architecture
Plant Breeding
Proteins
Review
Soils, Salts in
Solanum lycopersicum
TALE nucleases
tomato domestication
Tomatoes
Transcription factors
Viral infections
zinc finger nucleases
Zinc finger proteins
tomato domestication
Solanum lycopersicum
TALE nucleases
zinc finger nucleases
pathogen resistance
CRISPR/Cas
plant architecture
abiotic stress
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Summary:The use of gene-editing tools, such as zinc finger nucleases, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas, allows for the modification of physiological, morphological, and other characteristics in a wide range of crops to mitigate the negative effects of stress caused by anthropogenic climate change or biotic stresses. Importantly, these tools have the potential to improve crop resilience and increase yields in response to challenging environmental conditions. This review provides an overview of gene-editing techniques used in plants, focusing on the cultivated tomatoes. Several dozen genes that have been successfully edited with the CRISPR/Cas system were selected for inclusion to illustrate the possibilities of this technology in improving fruit yield and quality, tolerance to pathogens, or responses to drought and soil salinity, among other factors. Examples are also given of how the domestication of wild species can be accelerated using CRISPR/Cas to generate new crops that are better adapted to the new climatic situation or suited to use in indoor agriculture.
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ISSN:1422-0067
1661-6596
1422-0067
DOI:10.3390/ijms25052606