Table 2.

Overview of the recent CRISPR/Cas9 applications for the SDGs.

Applications	Plants	Target genes	Traits	SDGs	References
Abiotic and Biotic stresses tolerance	Arabidopsis	HSFA6a and HSFA6b	ABA and osmotic tolerance		(Wenjing et al., 2020)
	Arabidopsis	AITR	Drought tolerance		(Chen et al., 2021)
	Rice	OsSAP	Drought tolerance		(Park et al., 2022)
	Rice	OsbHLH024	Salinity tolerance		(Alam et al., 2022)
	Rice	OsERA1	Drought stress		(Ogata et al., 2020)
	Rice	OsSWEET14	Bacterial blight resistance		(Zafar et al., 2020)
	Soybean	F3H1, F3H2, and FNSII-1	Mosaic virus resistance		(Zhang et al., 2020)
	Soybean	GmAITR	Salinity tolerance		(Wang et al., 2021)
	Chickpea	4CL and REV7	Drought tolerance		(Razzaq et al., 2022)
	Tomato	SlMAPK3	Heat tolerance		(Yu et al., 2019)
	Barley	HvARE1	Nitrogen use efficiency		(Karunarathne et al., 2022)
	Banana	DMR6	Downy mildew resistance		(Tripathi et al., 2021)
	Potato	StDND1 and StCHL1	Late blight resistance		(Kieu et al., 2021)
Enhanced yield	Rapeseed	BnaMAX1	Improved productivity		(Zheng et al., 2020)
	Wheat	GW7	Increase in grain size and weight		(Wang et al., 2019b)
	Rice	GS3	Improved productivity		(Huang et al., 2022)
	Soybean	GmFT2a and GmFT5a	Increased pod and seed size		(Cai et al., 2020)
Enhanced Quality	Rice	GW2	Enhanced protein		(Achary and Reddy, 2021)
	Rice	OsGAD3	Increased GABA		(Akama et al., 2020)
	Rice	GBSS	Low amylose		(Huang et al., 2020)
	Wheat	TaSBEIIa	High amylose		(Li J et al., 2021a)
	Wheat	CM3 and CM16	Reduced allergens		(Camerlengo et al., 2020)
	Wheat	TaASN2	Reduced asparagine		(Raffan et al., 2021)
	Potato	SBE1	Reduced asparagine		(Tuncel et al., 2019)
	Barley	D-hordein	Lowered prolamine and enhanced glutenin		(Yang et al., 2020)
	Rapeseed	BnITPK	Reduced phytic acid		(Sashidhar et al., 2020)
Hybrid breeding	Rice	Zep1	Improves the frequency of genetic recombination		(Liu et al., 2021)
	Wheat	ZIP4-B2	Recombination of homologous chromosomes		(Martín et al., 2021)