Improvement of floricultural traits in ornamental crops using genome editing tools

Pritam Ramesh Jadhav, Supriya Babasaheb Aglawe, D. Harish, Yogesh S. Wagh, Kalyani M. Barbadikar, P. Naveen Kumar, Prashant G. Kawar, K. V. Prasad, S. P. Jeevan Kumar

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Abstract

Floriculture is one of the most promising sectors of the horticulture industry with immense aesthetic, social, medicinal and economic value. Ornamentals are rich in natural pigments and they belong to diverse groups with distinct biochemical pathways. Recently, genome editing has gained significant attention owing to its potential in modifying the traits in plants. Development of in vitro transformation protocols coupled with availability of gene sequences for commercial traits could accelerate the improvement of cut flowers, particularly, chrysanthemum, rose, lily, freesia, gerbera, tulip, carnation, alstroemeria, hydrangea and lisianthus. In this review, we discussed about basic mechanism of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–CRISPR-associated (CRISPR-Cas) systems, its types and its potential in accelerating breeding programmes for improvement of ornamental crops.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)773-790
Number of pages18
JournalJournal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Volume32
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2023
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • CRISPR-Cas system
  • Genome editing
  • Mutation breeding
  • Ornamental crops

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