• News Articles
• Research Articles and Reviews
• Sub-topics

News Articles

• National Science Foundation(2013).
  US and UK scientists collaborate to design crops of the future
  News Release 13-147
• Ossola A (2016).
  Researchers have genetically modified limes to make them more resilient and healthier for you -- and they're purple.
  Business Insider, 8 Jan 2016.
• Anon (2018).
  'Turbocharging' photosynthesis in corn hikes yield.
  Science Daily, 1 Oct 2018.
• Niiler E (2018).
  Why gene editing is the next food revolution.
  National Geographic, 10 Aug 2018.
• Cavanagh A (2019).
  Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields.
  Morning AgClips, 7 Jan 2019.
• Holtz J (2019).
  Link between common weedkiller and some cancers
  Technology Networks 15 Feb 2019
• Anon (2019).
  Nanotubes make genetic engineering in plants easy.
  Morning AgClips, 26 Feb 2019.
• Anon (2019).
  Tobacco plants transformed into green bioreactors to produce human proteins.
  Technology Networks, 27 Feb 2019.
• Anon (2019).
  Genome Editing and World Hunger.
  Technology Networks, 1 Apr 2019.

Research Articles and Reviews

• Chaparro-Garcia A, Kamoun S, Nekrasov V (2015).
  Boosting plant immunity with CRISPR /Cas
  Genome Biol 16:254.
• de Santis B and 13 others (2018).
  Case studies on genetically modified organisms (GMOs): Potential risk scenarios and associated health indicators.
  Food Chem Toxicol 117:36-65.
• Delaney B (2015).
  Safety assessment of foods from genetically modified crops in countries with developing economies.
  Food Chem Toxicol 86:132-143.
• Liu X, Wu S, Xu J, Sui C, Wei J (2017).
  Application of CRISPR/Cas9 in plant biology.
  Acta Pharm Sinica B 7:292-302.
• Mehta D, Stürchler, A, Anjanappa RB, Zaidi SSEA, Hirsch-Hoffmann M, Gruissem W, Vanderschuren H (2019).
  Linking CRISPR-Cas9 interference in cassava to the evolution of editing-resistant geminiviruses.
  Genome Biol 20:80.
• Shaha T, Andleeb T, Lateef S, Noor MA (2018).
  Genome editing in plants: Advancing crop transformation and overview of tools.
  Plant Physiol Biochem 131:12-21.
• Zhang Y, Massel K, Godwin ID, Gao C (2018).
  Applications and potential of genome editing in crop improvement
  Genome Biol 19:210.

Sub-Topics

• Introduction (Reps. E AlQaffas, Cameron Green)
• Maize, CRISPR, Cas9, and Cas12a (Rep. E AlQaffas, Co-Organizer)
• GM Plants Improves Nutrition (Rep. Kevin Castaneda)     -     Outline
• The Mechanisms of Weed Resistance to Glyphosate (Rep. Cameron Green, Co-Organizer)     -     Outline
• Increasing Plant Tolerance to Oxidative Stress via Overexpression of the AtOXR2 Gene (Rep. Nathaniel Smith)     -     Outline
• Tolerance to Imidazoline (Rep. Jada Wilson)