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Genome-editing technology is a biological mutation induction technique that is attracting attention as a novel and effective tool for mutation breeding. CRISPR/Cas9 technology is now used to develop genome-editing crops. This photograph was taken in August 2022 of the harvesting of Europe’s first field trial of genome-edited (CRISPR) wheat. This special issue in Breeding Science contains six review articles and one research paper, which focus on recent advances in the introduction of global trends in the regulation rules for genome-edited crops (foods), trends in the social license for genome-edited crops in Japan, the development of new genome-editing technologies, and genome-edited crops that are expected to be implemented in society in the future: wheat, melon, and tomato (This issue, p. 37–46).

(H. Ezura: The University of Tsukuba)