
CRISPR Technology for Combating Plant Pests and Pathogens
- 1st Edition - September 19, 2025
- Editor: Jen-Tsung Chen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 3 9 2 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 4 3 9 2 1 - 6
CRISPR Technology for Combating Plant Pests and Pathogens improves the understanding of CRISPR-mediated crop protection, presenting innovative strategies for developing di… Read more

In agricultural food production, a range of stressors continues to challenge crop production globally. Fortunately, modern crop breeding approaches have developed rapidly, including the promising technology of plant genome editing. Leading to improvements in disease resilience or stress-tolerant crops, CRISPR/Cas9 is among the mainstream genome editing technologies for plant breeding precision and efficiency.
CRISPR Technology for Combating Plant Pests and Pathogens offers in-depth summaries curated by leading experts and professors in the field of agricultural biotechnology, providing the essential knowledge needed to advance research and applications in crop resilience.
- Provides CRISPR-based methods for advancing plant pest and pathogen management
- Includes ways to improve efficiency and reduce off-target effects of CRISPR technology
- Discusses ethical and societal issues for CRISPR technology
2. CRISPR/Cas techniques for developing biotic stress-tolerant plants: Advances, limitations, and future perspectives
3. CRISPR-edited plants for pest resistance: Methods and applications
4. CRISPR-edited plants for resistance to insect herbivores: Methods and applications
5. CRISPR-edited plants for resistance to fungal diseases: Methods and applications
6. CRISPR-edited plants for resistance to bacterial diseases: Methods and applications
7. CRISPR-edited plants for resistance to viral diseases: Methods and applications
8. CRISPR-edited plants for herbicide resistance: Methods and applications
9. CRISPR to enhance biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) and nitrogen use efficiency (NUE): Methods and applications
10. CRISPR-edited plants for enhanced secondary metabolism: Methods and applications
11. CRISPR-edited plants for disease resistance in horticultural crops: Methods and applications
12. Emerging plant CRISPR technologies for improved efficiency and reduced off-targets effects
13. Ethical, societal issues, and future challenges of plant CRISPR technologies
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 19, 2025
- Language: English
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Jen-Tsung Chen
Dr. Jen-Tsung Chen is a Professor of Cell Biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He teaches cell biology, genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. His research spans bioactive compounds, chromatography, plant molecular biology and biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems pharmacology. An active book and journal editor, he serves on editorial boards and has guest-edited special issues for several international journals. Dr. Chen has authored and edited books with international publishers on topics including drug discovery, herbal medicine, medicinal biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, speed breeding, CRISPR-based plant genome editing, and artificial intelligence. In 2023 and 2024, he was listed by Elsevier and Stanford University among the “World’s Top 2% Scientists.”