IMPACT CITESCORE FACTOR 2.5 2.925 SCOPUS an Open Access Journal by MDPI Applying Genome Editing for Crop Improvement Guest Editor: Message from the Guest Editor Prof. Dr. Yong Pyo Lim Human beings have depended on plants for their food, Department of Horticulture, medicine, and shelter since they very first appeared on this Chungnam National University, planet. Indeed, humans have managed to forge a very Daejeon 34134, Korea strong bond with plants, one that is sustained from the [email protected] beginning to the end of a human life. Various research field have been a large number of developments and innovations in recent years, principally medicine and Deadline for manuscript agriculture. Among them, genome editing is one of the submissions: scientific platforms which is anticipated to redesign the 15 November 2021 fate of the world. Genome editing has not only led to breakthrough achievements in medicine, but it has also been involved in the development of agricultural crops. Naturally, not all plants have the same beneficial traits. For instance, plant with high importance potential secondary metabolites cannot generally withstand drought or salty conditions and vice versa. To compensate for this shortcoming, genome editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 has been used, playing a fundamental role in creating mutation(s) in a particular region of the plant genome, and thereby leading to gains or losses of certain functions in future generations. mdpi.com/si/63347 SpeciaIslsue IMPACT CITESCORE FACTOR 2.5 2.925 SCOPUS an Open Access Journal by MDPI Editor-in-Chief Message from the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Les Copeland Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472) is an international, Sydney Institute of Agriculture, crossdisciplinary and scholarly open access journal on the School of Life and Environmental science and technology of crop and animal production, Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, and management of the natural resource base for Australia agricultural production. Agriculture is published in an open access format – research articles, reviews and other contents are released on the internet immediately aer acceptance. The scientific community and the public have unlimited and free access to the content as soon as it is published. Author Benefits Open Access:— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions. High Visibility: indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), AGRICOLA, AGRIS, RePEc, and many other databases. Journal Rank: JCR - Q1 (Agronomy) / CiteScore - Q2 (Agronomy and Crop Science) Contact Us Agriculture Tel: +41 61 683 77 34 mdpi.com/journal/agriculture MDPI, St. Alban-Anlage 66 Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 [email protected] 4052 Basel, Switzerland www.mdpi.com @AgricultureMdpi.