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CRISPR/Cas and Its Potentiality as an Effective Tool

11.5 CONCLUSION

The global warming and climatic changes accompanied with various types

of spontaneous and dynamic environmental stresses are the highest threat to

food security. Conventional breeding and genetic engineering tactics have

given substantial gifts for the mitigation of these stresses. These tools are not

competent enough to design desirable alleles in an in-effect mode in a short

time. CRISPR/Cas based editing tools generate accurate and precise modifi­

cations in a simple way, with no time and transform the breeding programs

to designing of climate-smart crops.

KEYWORDS

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Cas endonuclease

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CRISPR/Cas

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crop improvement

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environmental stress

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genome editing

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genome engineering

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