Genome Editing Technologies and its Applications in Plants

Climate change, decreasing agricultural fields, increasing biotic and abiotic stress factors are major obstacles for agriculture and food production. In order to secure production and food safety against the rapid increase in global population and unpredictable climatic conditions, products with higher tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses are needed. Genome editing technologies have the potential to produce high yields of products under biotic and abiotic stress conditions. In this review, an overview of genome editing technologies will be presented, and the recent genome editing applications with CRISPR/Cas9 systems in plants will be mentioned