CRISPR-Based Crop Improvements: A Way Forward to Achieve Zero Hunger

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Abstract

Zero hunger is one of the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations in 2015 to achieve global food security by 2030. The current harvest of crops is insufficient; feeding the world's population and meeting the goal of zero hunger by 2030 will require larger and more consistent crop production. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated protein (CRISPR-Cas) technology is widely used for the plant genome editing. In this review, we consider this technology as a potential tool for achieving zero hunger. We provide a comprehensive overview of CRISPR-Cas technology and its most important applications for food crops' improvement. We also conferred current and potential technological breakthroughs that will help in breeding future crops to end global hunger. The regulatory aspects of deploying this technology in commercial sectors, bioethics, and the production of transgene-free plants are also discussed. We hope that the CRISPR-Cas system will accelerate the breeding of improved crop cultivars compared with conventional breeding and pave the way toward the zero hunger goal.

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Ahmad, S., Tang, L., Shahzad, R., Mawia, A. M., Rao, G. S., Jamil, S., … Tang, S. (2021, August 4). CRISPR-Based Crop Improvements: A Way Forward to Achieve Zero Hunger. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.1c02653

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