What is the available evidence for the range of applications of genome-editing as a new tool for plant trait modification and the potential occurrence of associated off-target effects: a systematic map

Table 6 Genome-editing in plants for industrial utilization (1996–May 2018)

Plant	Developer, producer, country	Trait	Specification	Technological specification	References
Pennycress	Illinois State University, USA	Product quality	Altered oil composition	CRISPR/Cas9 SDN1	[165]
Poplar	University of Georgia, USA	Product quality	Stem wood discoloration due to lignin reduction	CRISPR/Cas9 SDN1	[166]
Potato	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden	Product quality	Improved starch quality	CRISPR/Cas9 SDN1	[167]
Sugarcane	University of Florida, USA	Product quality	Reduced lignin content	TALENs SDN1	[168, 169]
Switchgrass	Noble Research Institute, USA	Product quality	Reduced lignin content	CRISPR/Cas9	[170]
Tobacco	North Carolina State University, USA	Product quality	Reduced nicotine content	Meganucleases SDN1	[171]

CRISPR/Cas9 Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9, TALENs Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases, SDN Site directed nucleases

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