1Food Security and Safety Focus Area, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of North-West, Mmabatho, South Africa 2School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China DOI 10.7717/peerj.17402 Academic Editor Anshuman Singh Subject Areas Agricultural Science, Bioengineering, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Plant Science Keywords Genetic engineering, CRISPR-Cas9, Genome editing, Food security, Environmental stressors Copyright © Licence This is an...