Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Book Chapter Book Chapter Faculty Publications- Book Chapter Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing of crops: Food and nutritional security Subject The topic of the resource CRISPR-Cas9; Crop improvement; Food safety; Food security; Genome editing; Molecular breeding; Nutritional security Description An account of the resource The United Nations established the goal of achieving global food security by 2030 as one of its top sustainable development goals in 2015. The current agricultural harvest is insufficient to accomplish the zero-hunger objective and feed the world's growing population. It would require more extensive and consistent crop production. Gene-editing technologies have recently emerged as viable alternatives to permit precise modifications in genomes with increased efficiency and yield higher agricultural productivity. Due to their simplicity, adaptability, and reproducibility across a diverse variety of species, genetic engineering techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 have become quite prominent. CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology can improve crop yields, quality, stress resistance, food safety, nutritional security, and shelf-life, reduce antibiotic resistance, and hasten plant domestication. Cutting-edge techniques like genome editing (GE) allow for the precise introduction or mutation of specified genes into plant genomes. The advent of programmable nucleases like CRISPR-Cas9 has improved gene editing and potentially improved food production and nutritional security. Knock-out, knock-in, gene activation, gene repression, nuclear rearrangements, base editing, molecular breeding, and epigenome engineering are just a few ways that CRISPR systems can target and change genes. For novel applications in plant genetic engineering, CRISPR-Cas systems can be repurposed for GE toward de-novo speciation; mitochondrial and plastid genome engineering toward enhancing photosynthesis, submergence, and drought tolerance. The versatility of CRISPR-associated systems broadens the scope of crop development applications that they can be used for, especially in improving food and nutritional security, which is the focus of this chapter. 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource R Krishnan R.; Sivakumar B.; Jagannath N.; Rao N.R.; Suresh N.; Nagella P.; Al-Khayri J.M.; Jain S.M. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived CRISPRized Horticulture Crops: Genome Modified Plants and Microbes in Food and Agriculture, pp. 161-190. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Elsevier Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13229-2.00024-7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13229-2.00024-7</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85192874506&amp;doi=10.1016%2FB978-0-443-13229-2.00024-7&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=31b293a17a1c9486d249293db27263a8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85192874506&amp;doi=10.1016%2fB978-0-443-13229-2.00024-7&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=31b293a17a1c9486d249293db27263a8</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISBN: 978-044313229-2; 978-044313230-8 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book chapter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant R Krishnan R., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Sivakumar B., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Jagannath N., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Rao N.R., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Suresh N., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Nagella P., Department of Life Sciences, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bangalore, India; Al-Khayri J.M., Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Food Sciences, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia; Jain S.M., Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland