Bananas are important to millions of people around the world as a source of food and income. Many children especially from the African continent eat mashed bananas as their first solid food during weaning. Banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) is a huge threat to banana production and if nothing is done to control the disease, 50% of production could be lost. Different interventions towards the control of the wilt have been tried, including cultural, biological, chemical, and genetic modifications. However, measures are inadequate in their capacities. The cultural methods are hindered by inconsistencies by farmers while administering. Biological, chemical, and genetic modifications face the challenge of resistance that might arise due to pathogen evolution. In addition, genetic modification attracts non-acceptance due to the novel genes introduced into the crop and the misconceptions created by interested groups. There is, therefore, a need to embrace new technological advances like gene editing (GE) which is viewed as the future of creating resistance in crops against diseases because, unlike genetic modifications, the novel genes are removed through the cell's natural processes. GE technology utilizes clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR-Cas9) to target genes intending to create resistance by knocking the susceptible genes out or by activating the expression of the defense genes. This review gives a synopsis of BXW's current control measures and the potential that GE has to address the disease more adequately.
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Gene Editing, CRISPR-Cas9, Banana Xanthomonas Wilt
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Dancun Muchira, Elias Mwangi, Richard Oduor. (2022). A Review of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) Current Control Measures and Genome Editing as a Potential Intervention. International Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 7(3), 118-123. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijmb.20220703.12
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