AUTHOR=Vu Tien Van , Das Swati , Tran Mil Thi , Hong Jong Chan , Kim Jae-Yean TITLE=Precision Genome Engineering for the Breeding of Tomatoes: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives JOURNAL=Frontiers in Genome Editing VOLUME=2 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genome-editing/articles/10.3389/fgeed.2020.612137 DOI=10.3389/fgeed.2020.612137 ISSN=2673-3439 ABSTRACT=
Currently, poor biodiversity has raised challenges in the breeding and cultivation of tomatoes, which originated from the Andean region of Central America, under global climate change. Meanwhile, the wild relatives of cultivated tomatoes possess a rich source of genetic diversity but have not been extensively used for the genetic improvement of cultivated tomatoes due to the possible linkage drag of unwanted traits from their genetic backgrounds. With the advent of new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs), especially CRISPR/Cas-based genome engineering tools, the high-precision molecular breeding of tomato has become possible. Further, accelerated introgression or