Meeting the crucial demand for sustainable agriculture is an upcoming
challenge worldwide, leading to global food security concerns. Approximately 50% of
agricultural loss is caused by both biotic and abiotic stresses. As per the estimation of
Agrios, 42% of crop loss is characterized by biotic stress alone. Bacteria are the second
largest contributor in terms of economic losses caused by various plant diseases.
Hence, there is a need to develop elite cultivars in amalgamation with readily available
sequenced plant database and progressive genome editing. This has proved to be a
groundbreaking/milestone in the field of plant breeding for any desired trait. Until now,
many new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) have been introduced for crop
improvement. These techniques include site-specific mutagenesis, cisgenesis,
intragenesis, breeding with transgenic inducer lines, etc. This book chapter provides a
comparative understanding of enrichment in plant genome editing approach about
bacterial pathogens aiming for sustainable agriculture development. This chapter also
brings a broad aspect of the application, advantages, unsighted aspects of genome
editing, and future challenges.
Keywords: Bacterial plant pathogen, NPBTs, Plant genome editing, Sustainable agriculture.
