The recent advances in agricultural biotechnology and genetic engineering have brought numerous benefits to the food and agricultural sector by improving the essential characteristics of plant agronomic traits. Targeted genome editing using sequence specific nucleases (SSNs) provides a general method for inducing targeted deletions, insertions and precise sequence changes in a broad range of organisms and cell types. Genome editing tools, such as siRNA-mediated RNA interference, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) and zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) for DNA repair has been widely used for commercial purposes. |
