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Crop plants with improved culture and quality traits for food, feed and other uses

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The large French research project GENIUS (2012–2019, https://www6.inra.genius-project_eng/) provides a good showcase of current genome editing techniques applied to crop plants. It addresses a large variety of agricultural species (rice, wheat, maize, tomato, potato, oilseed rape, poplar, apple and rose) together with some models (Arabidopsis, Brachypodium, Physcomitrella). Using targeted mutagenesis as its work horse, the project is limited to proof of concept under confined conditions. It mainly covers traits linked to crop culture, such as disease resistance to viruses and fungi, flowering time, plant architecture, tolerance to salinity and plant reproduction but also addresses traits improving the quality of agricultural products for industrial purposes. Examples include virus resistant tomato, early flowering apple and low-amylose starch potato. The wide range of traits illustrates the potential of genome editing towards a more sustainable agriculture through the reduction of pesticides and to the emergence of innovative bio-economy sectors based on custom tailored quality traits.

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This work was funded by the Investissement d’Avenir program of the French National Agency of Research for the Project GENIUS (ANR-11-BTBR-0001_GENIUS). The IJPB benefits from the support of the LabEx Saclay Plant Sciences-SPS (ANR-10-LABX-0040-SPS).

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  1. IJPB, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, 78026, Versailles, France

    Fabien Nogué & Oumaya Bouchabké-Coussa

  2. Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, UCB Lyon 1, CNRS, INRA, INRIA, RDP, 693342, Lyon, France

    Philippe Vergne & Peter M. Rogowsky

  3. IGEPP, INRA, Agrocampus Ouest, Université de Rennes 1, 35653, Le Rheu, France

    Anne-Marie Chèvre & Jean-Eric Chauvin

  4. BioForA, INRA, ONF, 45075, Orléans, France

    Annabelle Déjardin

  5. IRHS, INRA, AGROCAMPUS-Ouest, SFR 4207 QUASAV, Université d’Angers, 49071, Beaucouzé, France

    Elisabeth Chevreau & Laurence Hibrand-Saint Oyant

  6. GAFL, INRA, 84143, Montfavet, France

    Marianne Mazier

  7. GDEC, INRA, Université Clermont Auvergne, 63039, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Pierre Barret

  8. Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, AGAP, 34398, Montpellier, France

    Emmanuel Guiderdoni

  9. Biogemma, 63720, Chappes, France

    Christophe Sallaud

  10. SN Pépinières et Roseraies Georges DELBARD, 03600, Malicorne, France

    Séverine Foucrier

  11. Germicopa, 29334, Quimper, France

    Pierre Devaux

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Nogué, F., Vergne, P., Chèvre, AM. et al. Crop plants with improved culture and quality traits for food, feed and other uses. Transgenic Res 28 (Suppl 2), 65–73 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-019-00135-4

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