Genome editing and its necessity in agriculture

Genome editing is a technique in which changes are made in the DNA of any organism. A nuclease promotes breaks in the DNA at a specific sequence which is repaired by several mechanisms. It is one of the efficient technologies which enable us to change and edit genome of any organism precisely and accurately. Multiple genome editing technologies have been employed, including zinc finger nucleases, mega nucleases, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) along with Cas9 protein and transcription activator-like effector nucleases to modify genome of an organism.