Engineering non-coding DNA Elements in Rice: an Elegant Approach To fine-tune Agronomical Advantageous Traits
Tilak Chandra, Sarika Jaiswal, Kutubuddin A. Molla, Deependra Pratap Singh, Mir Asif Iquebal, Dinesh Kumar · 2025
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Tilak Chandra and co-authors review, in a 2025 paper, the case for editing rice not in its genes but in the DNA between them. Rice feeds a third of humanity, and squeezing more from it, in yield, nutrition, and resilience, is a standing global task. The non-coding stretches that regulate genes, the review argues, are the finer dial: turning expression up or down without the all-or-nothing risk of breaking a gene outright.
The authors gather every functionally mapped non-coding element known in rice and trace how natural variants in them fed domestication and modern breeding. They then weigh the new editing tools aimed at these dials, including engineered non-coding RNAs. The promise is alleles tuned by degree, restoring or softening effects to order. The review closes with a roadmap tying tool progress to the discovery of more such elements.
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| CREATOR | Tilak Chandra, Sarika Jaiswal, Kutubuddin A. Molla, Deependra Pratap Singh, Mir Asif Iquebal, Dinesh Kumar |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 95 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |