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HORTICULTURE RESEARCH
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1038/s41438-019-0159-x
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFD0400901]
- National Natural Sciences Foundation of China [31622050, 31672208]
- Chinese Scholarship Council [201706350174]
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Fruits are major sources of essential nutrients and serve as staple foods in some areas of the world. The increasing human population and changes in climate experienced worldwide make it urgent to the production of fruit crops with high yield and enhanced adaptation to the environment, for which conventional breeding is unlikely to meet the demand. Fortunately, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) technology paves the way toward a new horizon for fruit crop improvement and consequently revolutionizes plant breeding. In this review, the mechanism and optimization of the CRISPR system and its application to fruit crops, including resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses, fruit quality improvement, and domestication are highlighted. Controversies and future perspectives are discussed as well.
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