CRISPR, microbes and more are joining the war against crop killers

Simultaneous editing of three homoeoalleles in hexaploid bread wheat confers heritable resistance to powdery mildew

Yanpeng Wang, Xi Cheng, Yi Zhang et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 2014 · 2K citations

Agriculture, Genetics, Plant Sciences +12

New insights into an <scp>RNAi</scp> approach for plant defence against piercing‐sucking and stem‐borer insect pests

Haichao Li, Ruobing Guan, Huimin Guo et al. · Plant Cell & Environment · 2015 · 215 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Plant Biology, Plant Sciences +17

CRISPR-Cas9 mediated mutagenesis of a <i>DMR6</i> ortholog in tomato confers broad-spectrum disease resistance

Daniela Paula de Toledo Thomazella, Quinton Brail, Douglas Dahlbeck et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2016 · 185 citations · Full text

Agriculture, Crop Sciences, Plant Sciences +16

RNAi-Based Insecticidal Crops: Potential Effects on Nontarget Species

Jonathan G. Lundgren, Jian J. Duan · BioScience · 2013 · 145 citations

Agriculture, Agricultural Biotechnology, Biotechnology +17