genome search | EU-SAGE

Genome-editing techniques are promising tools in plant breeding. To facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the use of genome editing, EU-SAGE developed an interactive, publicly accessible online database of genome-edited crop plants as described in peer-reviewed scientific publications.
The aim of the database is to inform interested stakeholder communities in a transparent manner about the latest evidence about the use of genome editing in crop plants. Different elements including the plant species, traits, techniques, and applications can be filtered in this database.
Regarding the methodology, a literature search in the bibliographic databases and web pages of governmental agencies was conducted using predefined queries in English. Identifying research articles in other languages was not possible due to language barriers. Patents were not screened.
Peer-reviewed articles were screened for relevance and were included in the database based on pre-defined criteria. The main criterium is that the research article should describe a research study of any crop plant in which a trait has been introduced that is relevant from an agricultural and/or food/feed perspective. The database does neither give information on the stage of development of the crop plant, nor on the existence of the intention to develop the described crop plants to be marketed.
This database will be regularly updated. Please contact us via the following webpage in case you would like to inform us about a new scientific study of crops developed for market-oriented agricultural production as a result of genome editing

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Traits related to biotic stress tolerance

Significantly enhanced resistance to V. dahliae, and furthermore also to Verticillium albo-atrum and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (Fol), despite severe growth defects.
( Hanika et al., 2021 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands

Fungal resistance: Reduced susceptibility to necrotrophic fungi. Necrotrophic fungi, such as Botrytis cinerea and Alternaria solani, cause severe damage in tomato production.
(Ramirez Gaona et al., 2023)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands
Takii &
Company Limited, Japan

Fungal resistance: Increased tolerance against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, causing vascular wilt.
(Ijaz et al., 2022)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of Agriculture, Pakistan

Fungal resistance: Enhanced resistance against powdery mildew, caused by Oidium neolycopersici, which is a major concern for the productivity of tomato plants.
(Li et al., 2024)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of Torino, Italy
Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands
Shanxi Agricultural University, China

Fungal resistance: effective reduction of susceptibility against downy mildew by increasing salicylic acid levels. The pathogen can devastate individual vineyards and in some cases also affect production from entire regions.
(Giacomelli et al., 2023)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Research and Innovation Centre
Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
Enza Zaden
Hudson River Biotechnology, The Netherlands

Viral resistance: enhanced resistance against chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus (CpCDV). The range of symptoms caused by CpCDV varies from mosaic pattern to streaks to leaf curling and can include browning of the collar region and stunting, foliar chlorosis and necrosis.
(Munir Malik et al., 2022)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of the Punjab
University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Washington State University, USA

Viral resistance: to Cotton Leaf Curl Kokhran Virus, causing Cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD), a very devastating and prevalent disease. CLCuD causes huge losses to the textile and other industries.
(Hamza et al., 2021)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Pakistan

Broad-spectrum resistance against multiple Potato virus Y (PVY)-strains.
( Noureen et al., 2022 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS)
University Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (UIBB), Pakistan

Rapid detection of toxigenic Fusarium verticillioides, a phytopathogenic fungus that causes Fusarium ear and stalk rot and poses a threat to maize yields. This accurate and portable detection equipment has great potential for detection of the pathogen, even in areas lacking proper lab equipment.
( Liang et al., 2023 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Institute of Food Science and Technology
North Minzu University
School of Food Science and Engineering, China
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Belgium

Bacterial resistance: Strong resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae, causing bacterial blight, a devastating rice disease resulting in yield losses.
(Xu et al., 2021)

SDN1
TALENs

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Crop Diseases Research Institute, Pakistan

Viral resistance: Highly efficient resistance against wheat dwarf virus (WDV), an economically important virus. WDV infect both wheat and barley causing severe yield losses. The natural resistance resources are limited.
(Kis et al., 2019)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of Pannonia
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Eötvös Loránd University University
Szent István University, Hungary

Viral resistance: reduced cotton leaf curl viral (CLCuV) load with asymptomatic plants. <br /> CLCuV causes a very devastating and prevalent disease. It causes huge losses to textile and other industries.
(Shakoor et al., 2023)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of the Punjab
University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Pacific Biosciences
CureVac Manufacturing GmbH, Germany

Fungal resistance: Reduced susceptibility to the powdery mildew pathogen (Oidium neolycopersici), a world-wide disease threatening the production of greenhouse- and field-grown tomatoes.
(Santillán Martínez et al., 2020)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands

Fungal resistance: increased resistance against powdery mildew, a destructive disease that threatens cucumber production globally.
(Dong et al., 2023)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
University of California Davis, USA
Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands

Bacterial resistance: Strong resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae, causing bacterial blight, a devastating rice disease resulting in yield losses.
(Zafar et al., 2020)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Information Technology
Engineering and Management Sciences
Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan

Viral resistance: reduced viral accumulation and amelioration of virus-induced symptoms by Potato Virus Y.
(Lucioli et al., 2022)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

ENEA
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Italy
National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Hungary

Viral resistance: increased resistance to chickpea chlorotic dwarf virus (CpCDV).
(Malik et al., 2023)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of the Punjab
University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Washington State University, USA

Traits related to abiotic stress tolerance

Increased drought-avoidance strategy.
( Maioli et al., 2024 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of Torino, Italy
Ingeniero Fausto Elio/n, Spain
Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands

Increased tolerance to drought trough reducing water loss. Tuber development.
( Gonzales et al., 2020 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Centro Nacional de Biotecnología – CSIC
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain

Drought tolerance.
( Njuguna et al., 2018 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Ghent University
Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya

Traits related to improved food/feed quality

Reduces phytic acid (anti-nutrient) and improves iron and zinc accumulation in wheat grains. Biofortification.
( Ibrahim et al., 2021 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad
National Agricultural Research Centre, Pakistan

Reduced content of anti-nutritional factors in soybean seeds, leading to improved digestibility.
( Figliano et al., 2023 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

UEL - Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Portugal

Improved cold storage and processing traits: lower levels of reduced sugars
(Yasmeen et al., 2022)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Important metabolic changes affecting tomato fruit quality. Reduced contents of the anti-nutrient oxalic acid.
( Gago et al., 2017 )

SDN1
ZFN

University of Algarve, Portugal
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Technological Educational Institution of Crete, Greece

Increased amylose content. Cereals high in amylose content (AC) and resistant starch (RS) offer potential health benefits and reduce risks of diseases such as coronary heart disease, diabetes and certain colon and rectum cancers.
( Sun et al., 2017 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
University of California, USA
University of Liege, Belgium

Reduce malnutrition by decreasing antinutrient phytic acid (PA) and increasing Iron and Zinc accumulation. PA has adverse effects on essential mineral absorption and thus is considered as an anti-nutritive for monogastric animals.
( Ibrahim et al., 2021 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad
National Agricultural Research Centre, Pakistan

Traits related to increased plant yield and growth

Increase in 1000-grain weight, grain area, grain width, grain length, plant height, and spikelets per spike.
( Errum et al., 2023 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC)
PARC Institute of Advanced Studies in Agriculture (PIASA)
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Pakistan

Altered spike architecture.
( de Souza Moraes et al., 2022 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Norwich Research Park, UK
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Germany

Increased tiller number.
( Awan et al., 2024 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan

Improves complex traits such as yield and drought tolerance.
( Lorenzo et al., 2022 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Center for Plant Systems Biology
Ghent University
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Belgium

Increased total kernel number or kernel weight.
( Kelliher et al., 2019 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Research Triangle Park
University of Georgia, USA
Syngenta Crop Protection, The Netherlands

Altered root architecture with increased tillers and total grain weight.
( Rahim et al., 2023 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Quaid-e-Azam University
National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC)
The University of Haripur, Pakistan
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Nile University
Ain Shams University, Egypt
Chonnam National University, South Korea

Production of enlarged, dome-shaped leaves. Enlarged fruits with increased pericarp thickness due to cell expansion.
( Swinnen et al., 2022 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Ghent University
Center for Plant Systems Biology, Vives, Belgium
Université de Bordeaux, France

Traits related to industrial utilization

35% reduction in lignin. Fourfold increase in cellulose-to-glucose conversion upon limited saccharification. Efficient saccharification is hindered by the presence of lignin in the secondary-thickened cell walls.
( de Vries et al., 2021 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Ghent University
VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium

Glycoproteins without plant-specific glycans. Plants or plant cells can be used to produce pharmacological glycoproteins, for example antibodies or vaccines. However these proteins carry N-glycans with plant-typical residues [β(1,2)-xylose and core α(1,3)-fucose]. This plant-specific glycans can greatly impact the immunogenicity, allergenicity, or activity of the protein.
( Mercx et al., 2017 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Université catholique de Louvain
Université de Liège, Belgium

Conversion of hulled into naked barley.
( Gasparis et al., 2018 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

National Research Institute
Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Poland

Jointless tomatoes. Pedicel abscission is an important agronomic factor that controls yield and post-harvest fruit quality. In tomato, floral stems that remain attached to harvested fruits during picking mechanically damage the fruits during transportation, decreasing the fruit quality for fresh-market tomatoes and the pulp quality for processing tomatoes.
( Roldan et al., 2017 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), France
University of Liège, Belgium

Increasing cross over frequency. Cross over formation during meiosis is essential for crop breeding to introduce favourable alleles controlling important traits from wild relatives into crops.
( de Maagd et al., 2020 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands

Early heading: in regions with short growing seasons, early maturing varieties to escape frost damage are required.
(Sohail et al., 2022)

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

China National Rice Research Institute
Northern Center of China National Rice Research Institute
Zhejiang A&
F University, China
Mir Chakar Khan Rind University
Agriculture Research System Khyber, Pakistan
Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh
Agriculture Research Center, Egypt

Generate self-compatible diploid potato lines for the application of efficient breeding methods.
( Eggers et al., 2021 )

SDN3
CRISPR/Cas

Solynta
Wageningen University &
Research, The Netherlands

Tailoring poplar lignin without yield penalty. Reduced recalcitrance.
( De Meester et al., 2020 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Ghent University
VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology
VIB Metabolomics Core, Belgium

Establishment of maternal haploid induction. Doubled haploid technology is used to obtain homozygous lines in a single generation. This technique significantly accelerates the crop breeding trajectory.
( Zhong et al., 2022 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

China Agricultural University, China
Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Doubled haploids with increased leaf size. Doubled haploid technology is used to obtain homozygous lines in a single generation. This technique significantly accelerates the crop breeding trajectory.
( Impens et al., 2023 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Ghent University
VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO), Belgium

Reduced lignin content and increased sugar release upon saccharification.
( De Meester et al., 2021 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

Ghent University
VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Belgium

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

China Agricultural University, China
Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands

Traits related to herbicide tolerance

Glyphosate & hppd inhibitor herbicides, for example tembotrione
( D'Halluin et al., 2013 )

SDN2
CRISPR/Cas

Bayer CropScience N.V, Belgium

Herbicide tolerance: Bispyribac-sodium (BS). BS is a pyrimidinyl carboxy herbicide.
(Zafar et al., 2023)

SDN2
CRISPR/Cas

Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Pakistan

Traits related to product color/flavour

Color modification due to reduced anthocyanin accumulation.
( Klimek-Chodacka et al., 2018 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
East Carolina University
University of Maryland, USA

Albino phenotype
( Bánfalvi et al., 2020 )

SDN1
CRISPR/Cas

NARIC Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Hungary

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Traits related to biotic stress tolerance

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Traits related to improved food/feed quality

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Traits related to product color/flavour