Table 1.

Genome targeting technologies developed to confer viral resistance in plants.

Genome targeting platform	Virus	Genus	Family	DNA targeted	Reference
CRISPR/Cas9	Merremia mosaic virus, Cotton leaf curl Kokhran virus, Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV)	Begomovirus	Geminiviridae	Viral	Ali et al., 2015, 2016
	Beet curly top virus (BCTV); Beet severe curly top virus (BSCTV)	Curtovirus		Viral	Ali et al., 2015; Ji et al., 2015
	Bean yellow dwarf virus	Mastrevirus		Viral	Baltes et al., 2015
	Cucumber vein yellowing virus	Ipomovirus	Potyviridae	Host	Chandrasekaran et al., 2016
	Zucchini yellow mosaic virus, Papaya ringspot virus, Turnip mosaic virus	Potyvirus		Host	Chandrasekaran et al., 2016; Pyott et al., 2016
TALE	Tomato yellow leaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV), Tobacco curly shoot virus (TbCSV), Tomato leaf curl Yunnan virus	Begomovirus	Geminiviridae	Viral	Cheng et al., 2015
ZFN	TYLCCNV, TbCSV	Begomovirus	Geminiviridae	Viral	Chen et al., 2014
AZP	BSCTV, TYLCV	Begomovirus	Geminiviridae	Viral	Sera, 2005; Takenaka et al., 2007; Koshino-Kimura et al., 2009; Mori et al., 2013
	Rice tungro bacilliform virus	Tungrovirus	Caulimoviridae	Viral	Ordiz et al., 2010