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Application of CRISPR Technology and Nanomaterials to Advance Food Supply

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Perceptive breeding of domesticated crop plants and farm animals is nothing unknown or new. Since the dawn of human agriculture our ancestors shouldered the burden to systematically identify crop plants and animals for domestication with required traits that eventually influenced human evolution, steered cultural transformations, in effect started to alter their environments, and land use to expand the distribution and density of crop plants. Centuries of such selective domestication of cultivated crop plants and forest trees coupled with advanced biological tools have armed modern-day geneticists and provided plant breeders the capacity to confer crop improvement with the flexibility in a changing environment. The recent discovery of genome editing platform—Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats and associated proteins (CRISPR-Cas9) has proven to be an established genome editing systems in biomedical research with enormous potential in plant breeding and plant–microbe interactions. The value and efficiency of engineered CRISPR-Cas9 applications in plant systems remains to be a challenge especially with respect to gene delivery systems. Nanomaterials-enabled disease suppression approach will most certainly be a common tool in the effort to realize and endure global food security.

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