Suhas Gorakh Karkute 1*, Kishor Uttamrao Tribhuvan 2, Shruti Yadav 3
1 Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 School of Genomics and Molecular Breeding, ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
3 Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Home Economics, Delhi University, New Delhi, India
Abstract
Improvement of nutrition in fruits and vegetables is one of the most important aspects of plant breeding programmes. Biofortification of food crops is necessary to alleviate the challenges of hidden hunger. Consumption of fruits and vegetables provide nutrients like vitamins, minerals, dietary fibres, antioxidants to some extent, however, they either lack or have insufficient amount of several nutrients essential for human health. Recently developed genome editing tools like CRISPR/Cas9 have been successfully utilized for improving the nutrient content of various vegetables and fruits. Considering the potential of the genome editing technique, it is possible to enhance the nutrients as well as to synthesize novel health promoting compounds in the fruits or vegetables by metabolic engineering. This article describes the status and opportunities of improving the nutrition of fruits and vegetables using genome editing approaches.
Keywords: Nutrition, CRISPR/Cas9, fruits, vegetables, genome editing
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