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Enhancing climate resilience and ensuring food security with genome editing tools

Contact Info

Divison of Plant Physiology, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi - 110012

+91 9899426498

crispricar@gmail.com

Target Genes

Genes targeted in different crops for genome editing in this proposal


S.No. Crop Trait
1. Rice NUE, Photosynthesis & Yield
2. Rice Drought and salt tolerance and yield
3. Rice Enhanced root development/ drought Tolerance
4. Rice Blast resistance
5. Rice Culm strength
6. Rice Yield
7. Rice NUE
8. Rice Bacterial blight resistance
9. Rice Resistance to Blast disease
10. Rice Resistance to stunting disease of rice caused by Southern rice black-streaked dwarf virus
11. Rice Nematode resistance
12 Rice Fe content
13 Rice Yield
14 Rice Bacterial blight disease
15. Rice erect leaf, erect panicle, yield
16. Rice Herbicide resistance
17. Rice Yield
18. Rice Lodging resistant
19. Rice NUE
20. Rice WUE
21. Rice Quality
22. Rice Yield
23. Rice Grain filling, earliness, and male sterility (targeting two-line hybrid system)
24. Rice Dwarfness, grain yield, and culm strength
25. Rice
26. Rice high-amylose
27. Wheat Nitrogen Use Efficiency
28. Wheat Nitrogen Use Efficiency
29. Wheat Nutrient (Nitrogen and Phosphorus) Use Efficiency
30. Wheat Heat stress tolerance
31. Wheat Nitrogen use efficiency
32. Wheat Heat stress tolerance
33. Wheat Biofortification of Fe and Zn
34. Wheat Resistant starch
35. Maize Haploid induction
36. Maize Banded leaf and sheath blight resistance
37. Maize High-amylose/low-glycemic maize
38. Maize Low phytic acid, high amylose
39. Maize Kernel number per plant
40. Pearl millet Phytic acid biosynthesis
41. Pearl millet Grain yield
42. Pearl millet Herbicide tolerance
43. Pearl millet Shelf life
44. Foxtail millet Grain yield
45. Foxtail millet Phytic acid biosynthesis
46. Finger Millet Pollen development
47. Finger Millet Grain yield
48. Finger Millet Phytic acid biosynthesis
49. Finger Millet Drought stress tolerance
50. Sorghum Herbicide tolerance
51. Mustard Early flowering
52. Mustard Self incompatibility
53. Mustard Male Sterility
54. Mustard Improved Yield & Seed shattering resistance
55. Mustard Flowering phenotype/ Yield increase
56. Mustard Improved oil yield/ Improved plant architecture
57. Mustard Seed yield
58. Mustard Resistance to silique shattering; tolerance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
59. Mustard Oil content
60. Mustard Yield
61. Mustard Aphid resistance
62. Mustard High oil content
63. Mustard Orobanche resistance
64. Mustard Yield
65. Mustard Seed number
66. Mustard Orobanche resistance
67. Mustard Early flowering phenotype
68. Mustard Increased number of seeds per silique
69. Groundnut High Oleate
70. Groundnut Low phytic acid content
71. Soybean Seed and oil yield
72. Soybean Seed yield + removal of pod shattering
73. Soybean Insect Resistance
74. Soybean Oleic acid content
75. Soybean Resistance to Yellow Mosaic Disease
76. Soybean Drought, water logging, and salinity stress tolerance
77. Camelina sativa Improved oil content
78. Castor Non-toxic castor lines
79. Chickpea Drought
80. Chickpea Fusarium wilt
81. Chickpea Productivity
82. Chickpea Nutrition
83. Chickpea Nutrition
84. Pigeonpea DH
85. Pigeonpea Male Sterility
86. Pigeonpea NUE
87. Pigeonpea Productivity
88. Pigeonpea SMD
89. Pigeonpea Earliness
90. Pigeonpea Lodging
91. Grasspea ODAP
92. Lentil Earliness and Lodging
93. Faba bean Enhanced L-DOPA
94. Cotton (G. hirsutum) Fiber quality (length and strength) and drought tolerance
95. Cotton (G. hirsutum) Fiber quality (length and strength) and agronomic traits
96. Cotton (G. hirsutum) Cotton seed oil content and salt stress tolerance
97. Cotton (G. hirsutum) Square and boll shedding tolerant
98. Cotton (G. hirsutum) Square and boll shedding tolerant
99. Jute (Corchorus olitorius) Improve fibre quality (reduced lignin & pectin in bast fibre)
100. Jute (Corchorus olitorius) Resistance to short-day flowering for climate change adaptation
101. Jute (Corchorus olitorius) Herbicide tolerance
102. Flax (Linum usitatissimum) Heat Stress Tolerance
103. Sugarcane Fatty acid accumulation
104. Sugarcane Whip smut resistance
105. Sugarcane Reduced lignin content
106. Sugarcane Herbicide resistance
107. Sugarcane Biomass modification
108. Sugarcane Abiotic stress tolerance
109. Sugarcane CAS9 free gene edited plants
110. Sugarcane Knockout of flowering