Open AccessRaising Climate-Resilient Crops: Journey From the Conventional Breeding to New Breeding Approaches
Author(s) -
Yashika Gaba,
Ashwani Pareek,
Lata Singla-Pareek Sneh
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
current genomics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.823
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1875-5488
pISSN - 1389-2029
DOI - 10.2174/1389202922666210928151247
Subject(s) - biosafety , genome editing , microbiology and biotechnology , crispr , commercialization , population , emerging technologies , computer science , biology , risk analysis (engineering) , business , genetics , gene , artificial intelligence , demography , marketing , sociology
In order to meet the demands of the ever-increasing human population, it has become necessary to raise climate-resilient crops. Plant breeding, which involves crossing and selecting superior gene pools, has contributed tremendously towards achieving this goal during the past few decades. The relatively newer methods of crop improvement based on genetic engineering are relatively simple, and targets can be achieved in an expeditious manner. More recently emerged genome editing technique using CRISPR has raised strong hopes among plant scientists for precise integration of valuable traits and removal of undesirable ones.