Plant genome engineering from lab to field—a Keystone Symposia report

Jennifer Cable, Pamela C. Ronald, Daniel Voytas, Feng Zhang, Avraham A. Levy, Ayumu Takatsuka, Shin ichi Arimura, Steven E. Jacobsen, Seiichi Toki, Erika Toda, Caixia Gao, Jian Kang Zhu, Jens Boch, Joyce Van Eck, Magdy Mahfouz, Mariette Andersson, Eyal Fridman, Trevor Weiss, Kan Wang, Yiping QiTobias Jores, Tom Adams, Rammyani Bagchi

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Abstract

Facing the challenges of the world's food sources posed by a growing global population and a warming climate will require improvements in plant breeding and technology. Enhancing crop resiliency and yield via genome engineering will undoubtedly be a key part of the solution. The advent of new tools, such as CRIPSR/Cas, has ushered in significant advances in plant genome engineering. However, several serious challenges remain in achieving this goal. Among them are efficient transformation and plant regeneration for most crop species, low frequency of some editing applications, and high attrition rates. On March 8 and 9, 2021, experts in plant genome engineering and breeding from academia and industry met virtually for the Keystone eSymposium “Plant Genome Engineering: From Lab to Field” to discuss advances in genome editing tools, plant transformation, plant breeding, and crop trait development, all vital for transferring the benefits of novel technologies to the field.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)35-54
Number of pages20
JournalAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume1506
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

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