Genetic Resources and Gene Editing Tools for Plant Resistance: Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 2075
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Agricultural Convergence Technology, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Republic of Korea
Interests: bacterial metal reduction; bacterial nitrogen cycle in soil; rhizosphere microbiology; plant–bacteria interactions; microbiome analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agricultural production faces global challenges due to climate change, insufficient arable land, population growth, and abiotic and biotic stresses. Traditional breeding approaches have been widely used to mitigate the risks of abiotic and biotic stresses. The availability of genome sequence data for numerous crop plants and precise genome editing tools have revolutionized plant breeding programs. The discovery of gene editing technology to manipulate crop stress-responsive genes and associated molecular networks has paved the way for sustainable crop management. Genome editing tools enable for desired changes in an organism's DNA by introducing an insertion/deletion (indel) and mutation into the sequences of particular genes via recruiting specific nucleases such as zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), or the clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) system. CRISPR technology has revolutionized life science research and has achieved remarkable results in resistance breeding for important cereals, vegetables, and fruit crops. Integrated approaches based on genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics are now further elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying stress responses. However, in recent years, significant advances in modern computational technology, like cryo–electron microscopy and Alphafold, predict the three-dimensional structures of proteins with higher accuracy and provide a molecular framework for studying proposed resistance mechanisms in plants. These cutting-edge technologies may generate broad-spectrum resistance against biotic and abiotic stress in crop plants. Hence, the main aim of the proposed Special Issue is to gather research ideas, findings, innovations, and knowledge in the research areas of genomics and plant resistance.
We invite researchers to contribute their original research papers, methods, perspectives, opinions, and reviews on the following themes.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Abiotic and biotic stresses;
- CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing for plant resistance;
- Genome editing for targeted improvement;
- Genome engineering and crop improvement;
- Protein engineering to elucidate the mechanism of environmental stress;
- Resistance mechanisms of plant disease management;
- Role of plant NLR protein in plant immunity;
- Transcriptional regulation of stress-inducible genes;
- Transgene-free genome editing for plant resistance.
Dr. Ji-Hoon Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- abiotic stress
- biotic stress
- crop improvement
- genome editing
- plant resistance
