Fig. 1. An overview of the 21st-century challenges and the high-value genes for breeding nutrient-dense weather-resilient crops.

Crops can develop resilience towards stresses through genome engineering and increase uptake of nutrients through better nutrient use efficiency, and hence meet the food and nutritional security challenges. Such crops will support in establishing high-efficiency farms capable of giving better returns per unit of the applied input (time, space, labor, energy).