CRISPR/Cas-Based Genome Editing Approaches for Insect Pest Control

A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Pest and Disease Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2021) | Viewed by 496

Special Issue Editors

Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: molecular genetics; gene expression; RNAi; pest control; gene editing; biosafety; gene drives
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Biological Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Southwest University, Chongqing‎, China
Interests: CRISPR technology
Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: lectins; carbohydrate-binding proteins; protein-carbohydrate interactions; carbohydrate recognition; glycosylation; glycosylation engineering; cellular localization; cell biological function; stress response; pharmaceutical protein production; yeast engineering, cell cycle; DNA stress; genomics
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Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure Links, 653 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: genes; gene-expression; biosafety; ecdysone recepto; insect pests; insects
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Rapid improvements in genome-editing tools over the last decade have provided us with advanced biotechnological techniques that can enable the precise and efficient targeted modification (insertions, deletions, substitutions) of an organism’s genome. The most widely used genome editing tool today is based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and associated protein (CRISPR-Cas) and has been utilized in a wide variety of species for both fundamental and applied research. The need to develop new sustainable pest management strategies has encouraged the exploration of the potential of genetic approaches to pest control. This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in strategies to exploit CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing to develop novel control strategies against insect pests. We will welcome novel research, reviews, and opinion pieces that cover studies/topics where plants have been edited to be resistant to insect pests, as well as studies where insect pests have been edited to limit their adverse impact on the plant. Additionally, biosafety-related studies of the use of CRISPR/Cas-based strategies for insect pest control will also be welcomed.

Dr. Clauvis Nji Tizi Taning
Prof. Sanyuan Ma
Dr. Kristof De Schutter
Dr. Olivier Christiaens
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • CRISPR/Cas
  • genome editing
  • pest control
  • gene drives
  • bioasafety

Published Papers

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