Editorial: Genome edited organisms for agriculture-challenges and perspectives for development and regulation.

With pleasure, we present this Research Topic of articles, which we believe will inform current and future discussions surrounding the regulation, traceability, and safety of genome-edited crops and derived food and feed products. A handful of genome editedcrops have already been commercialized in several nations across the globe and their number is likely to expand progressively in the coming few years. This prospect raises a number of questions, some of which are addressed in this Research Topic as follows: