Twenty years from now, the earth’s population will need 55% more food than it can currently produce. However, agriculture is facing severe challenges such as global climate change, exhausted resources, reduction of arable lands and various pathogen attacks. Advances in genomic technologies may offer potential solutions to these agricultural problems. Recent years have seen the rapid development of new genomic technologies such as CRISPR, TALENS and ODM (collectively gene editing), as well as doubled haploids, molecular markers and mapping populations. Together with the rapidly expanding availability of genome sequence data, these technologies have the potential to transform plant breeding.
Cross breeding is a traditionally used technology to improve the crops with desirable traits such as nutritional quality, higher yields, abiotic and biotic stress tolerances. Nowadays, emerging genomic technologies (EGTs) are being used extensively in agriculture and life sciences by researchers all over the world to incorporate desirable genes in different crops such as cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fruits or vegetables. Application of these technologies in new crops is expected to play an important role towards faster growth in productivity so critical for meeting the sustainable development goals, in particular the goals of zero hunger and sustainable food, nutrition and environmental security in the world.
This Research Topic will include papers that describe the application of cutting-edge technologies to improve various crops, vegetables and fruits. We aim to attract papers addressing targets from all over the world but not limited to the following:
• CRISPR/Cas, ZFN, TALENs
• Development of Molecular Markers
• Markers Assisted Breeding
• SNP Markers
• Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) in plants
• Genetic Engineering and Development of Transgenic (GMO) crops
• Current status of regulatory frameworks controlling GMO crops in the world
• Risk assessment of GMO crops
• New other emerging genomic technologies
Twenty years from now, the earth’s population will need 55% more food than it can currently produce. However, agriculture is facing severe challenges such as global climate change, exhausted resources, reduction of arable lands and various pathogen attacks. Advances in genomic technologies may offer potential solutions to these agricultural problems. Recent years have seen the rapid development of new genomic technologies such as CRISPR, TALENS and ODM (collectively gene editing), as well as doubled haploids, molecular markers and mapping populations. Together with the rapidly expanding availability of genome sequence data, these technologies have the potential to transform plant breeding.
Cross breeding is a traditionally used technology to improve the crops with desirable traits such as nutritional quality, higher yields, abiotic and biotic stress tolerances. Nowadays, emerging genomic technologies (EGTs) are being used extensively in agriculture and life sciences by researchers all over the world to incorporate desirable genes in different crops such as cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fruits or vegetables. Application of these technologies in new crops is expected to play an important role towards faster growth in productivity so critical for meeting the sustainable development goals, in particular the goals of zero hunger and sustainable food, nutrition and environmental security in the world.
This Research Topic will include papers that describe the application of cutting-edge technologies to improve various crops, vegetables and fruits. We aim to attract papers addressing targets from all over the world but not limited to the following:
• CRISPR/Cas, ZFN, TALENs
• Development of Molecular Markers
• Markers Assisted Breeding
• SNP Markers
• Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) in plants
• Genetic Engineering and Development of Transgenic (GMO) crops
• Current status of regulatory frameworks controlling GMO crops in the world
• Risk assessment of GMO crops
• New other emerging genomic technologies
