Addresses the latest information on the application of genome editing techniques in plants. It includes a historical background information about genome editing, describes the structures, mechanisms and different applications, and concludes with a discussion of the potential risks and opportunities.

Contributions by: Khadija Aaliya, Oumer Abdie, Muhamed Adem, Farooq Ahmad, Sallah A. Al-Hashedi, Zulfiqar Ali, Alekya Allu, Asadullah, Habib-ur-Rehman Athar, Farrukh Azeem, Anu Bansal, Sherien Bukhat, Mallesham Bulle, Jahnavi Chivukula, Rupesh Deshmukh, Vinay Kumar Dhiman, Kaushik Gosh, Ambreen Gul, Sehrish Iftikhar, Sumaira Iqbal, Khajista Jabeen, Phanikanth Jogam, Sana Khalid, Dipanshu Kumar, Hamid Manzoor, Altaf Nadaf, Muddesra Naeem, Nimra Naeem, Praveen Nagella, Kiran Nawaz, Himanshu Pandey, Gunvant B. Patil, Blessy Ponnachan, Lubna Rasool, Maria Rasul, Sumaira Rasul, Abdur Rauf, Fozia Saeed, Muhammad N Sattar, S. R. U. Shah, Shabnum Shaheen, Muhammad Naveed Shahid, Avinash Sharma, Hemendra Shinde, Baraka Siddique, Devendra Singh, Nidhi Singh, Renuka Suravajhala, Muhammad Nouman Tahir, Tooba Wajid, Sana Zahra