Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology - New Content Proposal for a Special Issue on Genome Editing: A precision breeding tool for sustainable food, nutrition and environmental sustainability
The longstanding dream of plant breeders for a precision mutagenesis tool became reality with the RNA-guided genome editing technology named Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated protein (CRISPR/Cas). Since GEd crops do not elicit any environment and biosafety requirements, many countries have exempted GEd crops from GMO regulation. Globally more than 250 Market-oriented genome edited crops have been developed, and some are approved for commercial cultivation. In this backdrop, a special issue on “Genome Editing: A precision breeding tool for sustainable food, nutrition and environmental sustainability” is proposed. Review papers, Mini-review, Research papers, Commentary etc. are invited for this Special Issue in the following areas: 1) Technological advances in CRISPR genome editing technologies, 2) Genome editing in pre-breeding, precision crop breeding, systems and synthetic biology, 3) Advances in bioinformatics and artificial intelligence (AI) for upscaling gene editing, and 4) Regulation of genome edited crops and consumer acceptance.
EDITORS
Dr Viswanathan Chinnusamy
Viswanathan earned his bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore (1990), and M.Sc. (1993) and Ph.D. (1999) from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He carried out his postdoctoral research at University of Arizona, Tucson (2001-2002), University of California Riverside, USA (2008-2010) and Harvard University, Boston, USA. Currently he is a Principal Scientist & Head, Division of Plant Physiology, at IARI, New Delhi. He has 25 years of research and teaching experience and >160 publications in peer reviewed journals. Currently his laboratory is focussing onphenomics, genetic engineering and genome editing for abiotic stress tolerance in crops.
Dr. Van Schepler-Luu
Van is currently working as a rice team group leader at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, where she focuses on studying the interaction between rice and leaf blight bacterial pathogen (Xoo) and developing advanced genome editing platforms for rice. She did her Ph. D at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, where she studied different layers of plant defense against fungal pathogens: from defensive genes to phytohormone signaling, the production of antifungal secondary metabolites and the association of beneficial microbes. Van earned her Master degree in Molecular bioscience at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She was trained in using interdisciplinary approaches to address biological questions, including molecular biology, analytical chemistry, microbiology, plant genetics and bioinformatics. Her works contributed to >10 publications in peer-reviewed journals such as Plant Physiology, PNAS, Nature Biotechnology.
Dr Satendra K Mangrauthia
Satendra is trained in the research field of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He is in the editorial board of high impact plant journals, and has considerable publishing experience: published >75 research papers, 9 review papers, 20 book chapters and authored 4 books. Dr.Mangrauthia earned his bachelor's degree in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry from C.S.A. University of Agriculture & Technology Kanpur (2001); his master's (2004) and doctorate degrees (2008) in Biochemistry from the Indian Agriculture Research Institute New Delhi. He did Postdoc from Purdue University, USA, and also was a visiting scientist at Heinrich Heine University Germany (2019) and at Louisiana State University USA (2020). His laboratory at ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research has done pioneering work on host and pathogen genomics, and stress biology.
Dr S V Ramesh
Dr. Ramesh earned his doctorate in Plant Biochemistry from ICAR-IARI, New Delhi (2007) following his Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture and Master’s in Biochemistry from TNAU, Coimbatore and CCS HAU, Hissar, respectively. Dr. Ramesh has undergone post-doctoral training in the field of Crop Biotechnology at Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, USA under DBT-sponsored CREST Award (2013-14). He has published scholarly articles- (spread over diverse fields such as plant molecular biology, plantation biology and nutrition biochemistry) in the forum of national and international repute. Currently, his team’s research focus is in the field of abiotic stress molecular biology, and lipid biochemistry of plantation crops. He also features in the Editorial Board of journals PLOS ONE and Measurement: Food.
Last date of paper submission: 15th September 2022