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West Virginia University

2018

Disease

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Application Of Crispr/Cas9 Genome Editing Technology For The Improvement Of Crops Cultivated In Tropical Climates: Recent Progress, Prospects, And Challenges, Effi Haque, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Md. Mahmudul Hassan, Pankaj Bhowmik, M. Rezaul Karim, Magdalena Śmiech, Kaijun Zhao, Mahfuzur Rahman, Tofazzal Islam Jan 2018

Application Of Crispr/Cas9 Genome Editing Technology For The Improvement Of Crops Cultivated In Tropical Climates: Recent Progress, Prospects, And Challenges, Effi Haque, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Md. Mahmudul Hassan, Pankaj Bhowmik, M. Rezaul Karim, Magdalena Śmiech, Kaijun Zhao, Mahfuzur Rahman, Tofazzal Islam

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The world population is expected to increase from 7.3 to 9.7 billion by 2050. Pest outbreak and increased abiotic stresses due to climate change pose a high risk to tropical crop production. Although conventional breeding techniques have significantly increased crop production and yield, new approaches are required to further improve crop production in order to meet the global growing demand for food. The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 (CRISPR-associated protein9) genome editing technology has shown great promise for quickly addressing emerging challenges in agriculture. It can be used to precisely modify genome sequence of any organism including plants …