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Edited by

Santosh Kumar Upadhyay

Department of Botany

Panjab University

Chandigarh, India

This edition first published 2021

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Name: Upadhyay, Santosh Kumar, editor.

Title: Genome engineering for crop improvement / edited by Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

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Identifiers: LCCN 2020029680 (print) | LCCN 2020029681 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119672364 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119672388 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119672401 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Crops–Genetic engineering. | Plant biotechnology.

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Sipla AggarwalDepartment of Biotechnology National Institute of Plant Genome Research Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus New Delhi, India

Sibtain AhmadUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad Sub‐Campus Depalpur Okara Punjab, Pakistan Animal Breeding and Genetics Faculty of Animal husbandry University of Agriculture Faisalabad Punjab, Pakistan

Habib AliDepartment of Agricultural Engineering Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan Punjab, Pakistan

Kazim AliNational Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology National Agricultural Research Centre Park Road, Islamabad 45500 Pakistan

Mohsin AliUniversity of Agriculture Faisalabad Sub‐Campus Depalpur Okara Punjab, Pakistan

Imran AminAgricultural Biotechnology Division National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences Faisalabad, Pakistan

Galal Bakr AnisRice Research and Training Center (RRTC) Rice Research Department Field Crops Research Institute Agricultural Research Center Sakha Kafr El‐Sheikh, Egypt