Genome Editing in Root and Tuber Crop Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Himanshu Saini, Rohit Kumar, Manjeet, Srinu Banothu, Suram Likhita Reddy, Rajesh Gudihalli Munivenkatappa, Sri Sai Siddartha Naik, Roop Kumar, Rahul Pradhan · 2026
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Description
Potatoes, cassava, sweet potatoes, and yams feed much of the world, yet they breed slowly and suffer climate, pests, and disease. Himanshu Saini and eight co-authors review in 2026 how CRISPR genome editing is being turned on these root and tuber crops, with working programs in Sub-Saharan Africa as running examples. The edits target disease resistance, stress tolerance, better nutrition, and longer shelf life.
Progress is throttled by stubborn plant transformation and by patchwork national rules on edited crops. The reviewers highlight workarounds: methods that ignore plant genotype and DNA free editing that leaves no foreign material behind. Engineering stacked traits in these many chromosome crops is the stated next step. Food security, they argue, runs through these underground staples.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Himanshu Saini, Rohit Kumar, Manjeet, Srinu Banothu, Suram Likhita Reddy, Rajesh Gudihalli Munivenkatappa, Sri Sai Siddartha Naik, Roop Kumar, Rahul Pradhan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |