The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing

The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing

The rapid increase in herbicide-resistant weeds creates a huge challenge to global food security because it can reduce crop production, causing considerable losses. Combined with a lack of novel herbicides, cultivating herbicide-resistant crops becomes an effective strategy to control weeds because...

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Main Authors: Huirong Dong, Yong Huang, Kejian Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Series:Genes
Subjects:
CRISPR/Cas
genome editing
herbicide resistance
application
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/6/912
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spelling doaj-70b70d74262c406e88df7b78523a356b2021-07-01T00:02:58ZengMDPI AGGenes2073-44252021-06-011291291210.3390/genes12060912The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene EditingHuirong Dong0Yong Huang1Kejian Wang2State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310006, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310006, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310006, ChinaThe rapid increase in herbicide-resistant weeds creates a huge challenge to global food security because it can reduce crop production, causing considerable losses. Combined with a lack of novel herbicides, cultivating herbicide-resistant crops becomes an effective strategy to control weeds because of reduced crop phytotoxicity, and it expands the herbicidal spectrum. Recently developed clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/CRISPR-associated protein (CRISPR/Cas)-mediated genome editing techniques enable efficiently targeted modification and hold great potential in creating desired plants with herbicide resistance. In the present review, we briefly summarize the mechanism responsible for herbicide resistance in plants and then discuss the applications of traditional mutagenesis and transgenic breeding in cultivating herbicide-resistant crops. We mainly emphasize the development and use of CRISPR/Cas technology in herbicide-resistant crop improvement. Finally, we discuss the future applications of the CRISPR/Cas system for developing herbicide-resistant crops.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/6/912CRISPR/Casgenome editingherbicide resistanceapplication
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Yong Huang
Kejian Wang
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The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing
Genes
CRISPR/Cas
genome editing
herbicide resistance
application
author_facet Huirong Dong
Yong Huang
Kejian Wang
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title The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing
title_short The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing
title_full The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing
title_fullStr The Development of Herbicide Resistance Crop Plants Using CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing
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publisher MDPI AG
series Genes
issn 2073-4425
publishDate 2021-06-01
description The rapid increase in herbicide-resistant weeds creates a huge challenge to global food security because it can reduce crop production, causing considerable losses. Combined with a lack of novel herbicides, cultivating herbicide-resistant crops becomes an effective strategy to control weeds because of reduced crop phytotoxicity, and it expands the herbicidal spectrum. Recently developed clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/CRISPR-associated protein (CRISPR/Cas)-mediated genome editing techniques enable efficiently targeted modification and hold great potential in creating desired plants with herbicide resistance. In the present review, we briefly summarize the mechanism responsible for herbicide resistance in plants and then discuss the applications of traditional mutagenesis and transgenic breeding in cultivating herbicide-resistant crops. We mainly emphasize the development and use of CRISPR/Cas technology in herbicide-resistant crop improvement. Finally, we discuss the future applications of the CRISPR/Cas system for developing herbicide-resistant crops.
topic CRISPR/Cas
genome editing
herbicide resistance
application
url https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/12/6/912
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