Genome Editing in Insect Pest Control: Importance, Strategies, and Future Implications

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Genome Editing in Insect Pest Control: Importance, Strategies, and Future Implications

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Ipsita Samal, Tanmaya Kumar Bhoi, Deepak Kumar Mahanta, Ansh Raj, J. Komal, Alagesan Keerthana, Vinod Kumar Dubey,  Genome Editing for Pest Management,  2025.

Genome editing is a cutting-edge tool in biotechnology which brought about substantial changes in a variety of areas, including agriculture and pest control. As properly managing insect pests is critical for protecting food supplies and ensuring produce security, insect species frequently cause severe problems by destroying crop production, resulting in significant financial losses, food scarcity, and insufficiency. Innovative breakthroughs in pest management technology have lately resulted in the replacement of traditional chemical pesticide applications with environmentally safe and non-polluting interventions. Genome editing has the potential to transform pest control by providing precise and targeted therapies for insect pests that can be managed permanently. Researchers have discovered that genome editing methods have created new possibilities for improving food safety, agricultural productivity, and sustainable agriculture affected by pests. Scientists may now offset insect-related shortcomings with creative ways and strategies that ensure environmentally friendly and sustainable farming practices and environmental preservation, thanks to the application of genome editing tools. This chapter focuses on the use of these state-of-the-art technologies in genome editing tools such as ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas9 enables us to assess the viability of insect control strategies, that provide significant promise for next-generation approaches to several major pest management problems and allow the insertion of precisely tailored modifications into the genetic composition of pests. To fully utilize the technology and specifically its implications for more efficient management of insect pests, study, analysis, and collaboration across many sectors are essential, which has been centralized in the current chapter.