Challenges and Perspectives in Homology-Directed Gene Targeting in Monocot Plants.

ABSTRACT: Continuing crop domestication/redomestication and modification is a key determinant of the adaptation and fulfillment of the food requirements of an exploding global population under increasingly challenging conditions such as climate change and the reduction in arable lands. Monocotyledonous crops are not only responsible for approximately 70% of total global crop production, indicating their important roles in human life, but also the first crops to be challenged with the abovementioned hurdles; hence, monocot crops should be the first to be engineered and/or de novo domesticated/redomesticated. A long time has passed since the first green revolution; the world is again facing the challenge of feeding a predicted 9.7 billion people in 2050, since the decline in world hunger was reversed

SUBMITTER: Van Vu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6923311 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature