Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology (Jan 2021)

CRISPR/Cas9 Technology and Applications in Plants

  • Emine Açar,
  • Yıldız Aka Kaçar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24925/turjaf.v9i1.1-6.3313
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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In order to increase access to nutritious foods around the world, innovative technologies need to be developed and integrated into agricultural production systems. The new plant breeding techniques developed offer many advantages for making modifications in the plant genome. CRSPR/Cas9, one of the genome editing technologies, is an efficient system with high potential that allows the formation of target-oriented mutations in many agricultural products and allows the mutation of new and desired characters to be obtained through breeding programs without the use of foreign genetic elements. In this review, we have summarize the discovery, evalution, functionality, genome editing studies of plants and the strong potentials of CRSPR/Cas9 technology for plant breeding.

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