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Advances in Engineering Virus-Resistant Plants
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Advances in Engineering Virus-Resistant Plants

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 7564

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Vincent N. Fondong

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Department of Biological Sciences, Delaware State University, 1200 North DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901, USA
Interests: plant virology; molecular biology; genetic engineering

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in genetic engineering have provided new opportunities and the potential to accelerate plant virus management efforts through the modification of host and viral genomes in a precise and predictable manner. Fundamentally, genetic engineering has important advantages that are not available in conventional breeding—notably, the ability to introduce genes from different species and improve crops that are propagated vegetatively, and importantly, minimal alteration of the crop genome. This Special Issue will discuss recent biotechnological strategies employed in plant virus management, notably, pathogen-derived resistance (RNA silencing) and forward and reverse genetics approaches. We will discuss these strategies and the significance of advances in CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology in both approaches. This Special Issue will also identify and discuss challenges limiting the wide deployment of genetic engineering in plant virus control.

Prof. Vincent N. Fondong
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Plants is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • genetic engineering
  • CRISPR
  • RNA interference
  • virus resistance

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RNA-Based Technologies for Engineering Plant Virus Resistance
by Michael Taliansky, Viktoria Samarskaya, Sergey K. Zavriev, Igor Fesenko, Natalia O. Kalinina and Andrew J. Love
Plants 2021, 10(1), 82; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10010082 - 2 Jan 2021
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In recent years, non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have gained unprecedented attention as new and crucial players in the regulation of numerous cellular processes and disease responses. In this review, we describe how diverse ncRNAs, including both small RNAs and long ncRNAs, may be used [...] Read more.
In recent years, non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have gained unprecedented attention as new and crucial players in the regulation of numerous cellular processes and disease responses. In this review, we describe how diverse ncRNAs, including both small RNAs and long ncRNAs, may be used to engineer resistance against plant viruses. We discuss how double-stranded RNAs and small RNAs, such as artificial microRNAs and trans-acting small interfering RNAs, either produced in transgenic plants or delivered exogenously to non-transgenic plants, may constitute powerful RNA interference (RNAi)-based technology that can be exploited to control plant viruses. Additionally, we describe how RNA guided CRISPR-CAS gene-editing systems have been deployed to inhibit plant virus infections, and we provide a comparative analysis of RNAi approaches and CRISPR-Cas technology. The two main strategies for engineering virus resistance are also discussed, including direct targeting of viral DNA or RNA, or inactivation of plant host susceptibility genes. We also elaborate on the challenges that need to be overcome before such technologies can be broadly exploited for crop protection against viruses. Full article
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