Virus-induced genome editing: toward crop breeding applications - PubMed
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- #crop breeding
- #CRISPR-Cas
- #VIGE
- CRISPR-Cas-based genome editing is transformative but faces delivery challenges in plants.
- Plant viruses are effective for delivering genome-editing components, avoiding traditional transformation methods.
- Virus-induced genome editing (VIGE) enables heritable edits in model plants like Arabidopsis and Nicotiana.
- VIGE has advanced to practical applications in agricultural crops, including hexaploid wheat.
- The review discusses VIGE's latest advances, crop improvement potential, and future research directions.