Table 3.

Genome editing allows breeding goals to be achieved in a more efficient way (after Petra Jorasch, “The global need for plant breeding innovation”, 28. June 2018)

Quality traits	Yield	Resistance
Baking quality (e.g. N-glycans modification in barley, gluten free wheat) Brewing quality (e.g. low lox barley) Fatty acid composition (e.g. high oleic acid soybean/camelina; low sat. fatty acid canola) Increased vitamin content Improved shelf life (improved cold storage potato, non-browning mushroom/apple/potato) Starch quality (e.g. waxy corn, amylopectin potato, high-amylose rice) Food/feed quality (low-phytate maize, high fiber wheat)	Corn yield (pod shatter resistant oil seed rape, grain weight and enhanced grain number in rice, parthenocarpic tomato plants) Biomass yield (improved C3-carbon metabolism in df) Starch, protein, sugar, oil content (higher oil content camelina) Nutrient use efficiency Water use efficiency (drought tolerant soybeans)	Viruses (cucumis: zucchini yellow mosaic virus; papaya ring spot virus) Bacteria Insect Fungi (e.g. powdery mildew in wheat and tomato, late blight potato, blast resistant rice) Drought, heat, salt (salt stress tolerant rice, drought stress resistant corn) Herbicides (e.g. oilseed rape, linum, rice, potato)