Precision genome editing heralds rapid de novo domestication for new crops

Xin-Guang Zhu; Jian-Kang Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.004

Precision genome editing heralds rapid de novo domestication for new crops

Cell. 2021 Mar 4;184(5):1133-1134. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.004.

Authors

Xin-Guang Zhu¹, Jian-Kang Zhu²

Affiliations

¹ National Key Laboratory for Plant Molecular Genetics, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: zhuxg@cemps.ac.cn.
² Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

PMID: 33667365
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.02.004

Abstract

The de novo domestication has the potential to rapidly capitalize on desirable traits of wild plants. In this issue of Cell, Yu et al. report a route of de novo domestication of an allotetraploid rice, heralding the creation of a novel staple food crop to support global food security.

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MeSH terms

Crops, Agricultural / genetics
Domestication*
Gene Editing
Oryza* / genetics