The Impact of Plant Genome Editing
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2019) | Viewed by 5230
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant Breeding; molecular biology; plant genetics, policy and regulatory aspects
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Interests: crop protection; crop improvement; biotechnology; environmental risk assessment; sustainable agriculture and land use
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A great challenge of this century is to provide adequate nutrition for an increasing global population while developing a more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable agriculture that counters climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of arable land. Plant research and breeding are very important in meeting this challenge. Genome editing has shown great potential as an emerging set of technologies that allow rapid genetic alterations at a level of precision not seen before, resulting in a corresponding increased capacity for improved plant research and crop trait management. This special issue addresses the actual and potential impact of genome editing technologies in terms of socio-economic, environmental and health impacts that result directly and indirectly from the use of genome editing technologies in plant research and breeding. It also addresses the actual and potential impact on plant research and plant breeding in terms of utility of this technology and novel opportunities for discoveries, elucidation of pathways, and global cellular knowledge, and as a facilitator for crop trait management. The special issue will include a range of perspectives including technical, scientific, economic, environmental, social, ethical, and others. Interdisciplinary articles are welcome.
Dr. Dennis Eriksson
Dr. Wendy Harwood
Dr. Jeremy Sweet
Dr. Didier Breyer
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Genome editing
- Plant research
- Plant breeding
- Impact
