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CRISPR towards a Sustainable Agriculture

2022; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 2; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/encyclopedia2010036

2673-8392

Francesco Camerlengo, Arianna Frittelli, Riccardo Pagliarello,

Genetically Modified Organisms Research

Climate change and the need to feed an increasing population undermines food production and safety, representing the reasons behind the development of a new agriculture that is much more sustainable, productive and accessible worldwide. Genome editing and, in particular, clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein (CRISPR/Cas) tools will play a major role in plant breeding to address these concerns. CRISPR/Cas includes a series of genome editing tools relying on the recognition and cleavage of target DNA/RNA sequences to introduce specific mutations.