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Title:
METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TRICHOME REMOVAL
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2023/133440
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying GLABRA2 (GL2) genes in Brassica plants. The invention further relates to Brassica plants and parts thereof having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes using the methods and compositions of the invention.

Inventors:
CRAWFORD BRIAN CHARLES WILDING (US)
MOJICA JULIUS (US)
POORTEN THOMAS J (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2023/060136
Publication Date:
July 13, 2023
Filing Date:
January 05, 2023
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Assignee:
PAIRWISE PLANTS SERVICES INC (US)
International Classes:
C12N9/22; C12N15/82
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Attorney, Agent or Firm:
BONNEN, Alice M. (US)
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Claims:
THAT WHICH IS CLAIMED IS: 1. A Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one mutation in an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide. 2. The Brassica plant or part thereof of claim 1, wherein the at least one mutation is a dominant negative mutation, a recessive mutation, a null mutation, and/or a knock down (weak loss of function) mutation. 3. The Brassica plant or part thereof of claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the at least one mutation is a base substitution, a base deletion, and/or a base insertion. 4. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the at least one mutation comprises a base substitution to an A, a T, a G, or a C. 5. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the at least one mutation is a base deletion of at least one base pair, optionally a deletion of about 1 base pair to about 100 consecutive base pairs. 6. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the at least one mutation is a base insertion of at least one base pair. 7. The Brassica plant or part thereof of claim 3 or claim 5, wherein the base deletion is an out-of-frame deletion. 8. The Brassica plant or part thereof of claim 3 or claim 6, wherein the base insertion is an out-of-frame insertion. 9. The Brassica plant or part thereof of claim 7, wherein the out-of-frame deletion produces/results in a premature stop codon. 10. The Brassica plant or part thereof of claim 8, wherein the out-of-frame insertion produces/results in a premature stop codon.

11. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one mutation is in the 5' region of the endogenous GL2 gene, optionally in Exon 2 of the endogenous GL2 gene. 12. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134, or comprises a region having at least 80% sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. 13. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene encodes a polypeptide having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. 14. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the Brassica plant is B. oleracea (e.g., B. oleracea var. oleracea, B. oleracea var. capitata, B. oleracea var. botrytis, B. oleracea var. gemmifera, B. oleracea var. sabauda, B. oleracea var. gongyiodes, B. oleracea var. italica, B. oleracea var. sabellica, B. oleracea var. acephala), B. villanosa, B. juncea, B. rapa (B. rapa subsp. pekinensis, B. rapa subsp. Chinensis, B. rapa subsp. rapa), B. napus, B. carinata, B. campestris, B. nigra or Raphanus raphanistrum (e.g., Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. Sativus). 15. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the Brassica plant is a mustard plant. 16. The Brassica plant or part thereof of claim 15, wherein the mustard plant is B. juncea, B. oleracea or B. rapa. 17. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any of the preceding claims, wherein the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising the at least one mutation exhibits a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant or part thereof that is devoid of the at least one mutation.

18. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any of the preceding claims, wherein the Brassica plant or part thereof comprises one or more endogenous GL2 genes (e.g., 2, 3, 4 or more) endogenous GL2 genes, optionally wherein at least two (e.g., 2, 3, 4 or more) endogenous GL2 genes comprise the at least one mutation. 19. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one mutation results in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. 20. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one mutation results in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. 21. The Brassica plant or part thereof of any one of the preceding claims, wherein the mutation is a non-natural mutation. 22. A Brassica plant cell comprising an editing system, the editing system comprising: (a) a CRISPR-Cas effector protein; and (b) a guide nucleic acid comprising a spacer sequence with complementarity to an endogenous target gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide. 23. The Brassica plant cell of claim 22, wherein the endogenous target gene is a GL2 gene. 24. The Brassica plant cell of claim 22 or claim 23, wherein the endogenous target gene: (a) comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134, (b) comprises a region having at least 80% sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102, and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135.

25. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 22-24, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:103-105 or any combination thereof. 26. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 22-25, wherein the Brassica plant cell is from B. oleracea (e.g., B. oleracea var. oleracea, B. oleracea var. capitata, B. oleracea var. botrytis, B. oleracea var. gemmifera, B. oleracea var. sabauda, B. oleracea var. gongyiodes, B. oleracea var. italica, B. oleracea var. sabellica, B. oleracea var. acephala), B. villanosa, B. juncea, B. rapa (B. rapa subsp. pekinensis, B. rapa subsp. Chinensis, B. rapa subsp. rapa), B. napus, B. carinata, B. campestris, B. nigra or Raphanus raphanistrum (e.g., Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. Sativus). 27. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 22-26, wherein the Brassica plant cell is a mustard plant cell. 28. The Brassica plant cell of claim 27, wherein the mustard plant is B. juncea, B. oleracea or B. rapa. 29. A Brassica plant regenerated from the Brassica plant part of any one of claims 1-21, or the Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 22-28. 30. The Brassica plant of claim 29, wherein the Brassica plant exhibits a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant that is devoid of the at least one mutation. 31. A Brassica plant cell comprising at least one mutation within one or more endogenous GL2 genes, wherein the at least one mutation is a base substitution, base insertion, or base deletion that is introduced using an editing system that comprises a nucleic acid binding domain that binds to a target site in the one or more endogenous GL2 genes.

32. The Brassica plant cell of claim 31, wherein the at least one mutation is a null mutation, a dominant negative mutation, a recessive mutation and/or a knockdown mutation (weak loss of function). 33. The Brassica plant cell of claim 31 or claim 32, wherein the target site is within a region of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes, the region having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. 34. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-33, wherein the target site is in the 5' region of the endogenous GL2 gene, optionally in Exon 2 of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes. 35. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-34, wherein the editing system further comprises a nuclease, the nucleic acid binding domain binds to a target site in a nucleic acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134, and/or comprises a region having at least 80% sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102, and the at least one mutation within the endogenous GL2 gene is made following cleavage by the nuclease. 36. The Brassica plant cell of claim 35 wherein the nuclease is a zinc finger nuclease, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALEN), endonuclease (e.g., Fok1) or a CRISPR-Cas effector protein. 37. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-36, wherein the nucleic acid binding domain is a zinc finger, transcription activator-like DNA binding domain (TAL), argonaute, or a CRISPR-Cas effector nucleic acid binding domain. 38. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-37, wherein the at least one mutation within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes is an insertion and/or a deletion, optionally the at least one mutation is an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion.

39. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-38, wherein the at least one mutation within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes is an insertion and/or a deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally wherein the at least one mutation is an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally a truncated protein. 40. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-39, wherein the at least one mutation within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes comprises a point mutation. 41. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-40, wherein the at least one mutation results in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. 42. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-41, wherein the at least one mutation results in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. 43. The Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-42, wherein the mutation is a non-natural mutation. 44. A Brassica plant regenerated from the Brassica plant cell of any one of claims 31-43 comprising the at least one mutation within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes. 45. The Brassica plant of claim 44, wherein the Brassica plant comprising the at least one mutation within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes exhibits a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant or part thereof that is devoid of the at least one mutation. 46. The Brassica plant of claim 44 or claim 45, wherein the Brassica plant is B. oleracea (e.g., B. oleracea var. oleracea, B. oleracea var. capitata, B. oleracea var. botrytis, B. oleracea var. gemmifera, B. oleracea var. sabauda, B. oleracea var. gongyiodes, B. oleracea var. italica, B. oleracea var. sabellica, B. oleracea var. acephala), B. villanosa, B. juncea, B. rapa (B. rapa subsp. pekinensis, B. rapa subsp. Chinensis, B. rapa subsp. rapa), B. napus, B. carinata, B. campestris, B. nigra or Raphanus raphanistrum (e.g., Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. Sativus), optionally wherein the Brassica plant is Brassica juncea. 47. A method of producing/breeding a transgene-free edited Brassica plant, comprising: crossing the Brassica plant of any one of the claims 1-21, 29, 30, or 43-46 with a transgene free Brassica plant, thereby introducing the at least one mutation into the Brassica plant that is transgene-free; and selecting a progeny Brassica plant that comprises the at least one mutation and is transgene-free, thereby producing a transgene free edited Brassica plant. 48. A method of providing a plurality of Brassica plants having modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes, the method comprising planting two or more Brassica plants of any one of claims 1-21, 29, 30, or 43-46 in a growing area, thereby providing the plurality of Brassica plants having modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes as compared to a plurality of control Brassica plants not comprising the at least one mutation. 49. A method of creating a mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 gene(s) in a Brassica plant, comprising: (a) targeting a gene editing system to a portion of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes that comprises a sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and (b) selecting a Brassica plant that comprises a modification located in a region of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. 50. A method of generating variation in a GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, comprising: introducing an editing system into a Brassica plant cell, wherein the editing system is targeted to a region of a GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide, and contacting the region of the GL2 gene with the editing system, thereby introducing a mutation into the GL2 gene and generating variation in the GL2 gene of the Brassica plant cell.

51. The method of claim 50, wherein the GL2 gene: (a) comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134, (b) comprises a region having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102, and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. 52. The method of claim 50 or claim 51, wherein the region of the GL2 gene that is targeted comprises at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. 53. The method of any one of claims 50-52, wherein contacting the region of the endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant cell with the editing system produces a Brassica plant cell comprising in its genome an edited endogenous GL2 gene, the method further comprising (a) regenerating a Brassica plant from the plant cell; (b) selfing the Brassica plant to produce progeny plants (E1); (c) assaying the progeny plants of (b) for modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes; and (d) selecting the progeny plants exhibiting a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant or part thereof that is devoid of the at least one mutation. 54. The method of claim 53, further comprising (e) selfing the selected progeny plants of (d) to produce progeny plants (E2); (f) assaying the progeny plants of (e) for modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes; and (g) selecting the progeny plants exhibiting a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant or part thereof that is devoid of the at least one mutation, optionally repeating (e) through (g) one or more additional times. 55. A method of detecting a mutant GL2 gene (a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene) in a Brassica plant comprising detecting in the genome of the Brassica plant a GL2 gene having at least one mutation within a region having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102.

56. The method of claim 55, wherein the mutant GL2 gene that is detected comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. 57. The method of claim 55 or claim 56, wherein the mutant GL2 gene encodes a polypeptide having at least 90% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. 58. A method for editing a specific site in the genome of a Brassica plant cell, the method comprising: cleaving, in a site-specific manner, a target site within an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene in the Brassica plant cell, the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134, (b) comprising a region having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102, and/or (c) encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, thereby generating an edit in the endogenous GL2 gene of the Brassica plant cell and producing a Brassica plant cell comprising the edit in the endogenous GL2 gene. 59. The method of claim 58, further comprising regenerating a Brassica plant from the Brassica plant cell comprising the edit in the endogenous GL2 gene to produce a Brassica plant comprising the edit in its endogenous GL2 gene. 60. The method of claim 58 or claim 59, wherein the Brassica plant cell comprises two endogenous GL2 genes and each of the two GL2 genes comprises an edit. 61. The method of any one of claims 58-60, wherein the edit results in a non-natural mutation.

62. The method of any one of claims 58-61, wherein the Brassica plant comprising the edit in its endogenous GL2 gene exhibits a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant or part thereof that is devoid of the at least one mutation. 63. The method of any one of claims 58-62, wherein the edit is an insertion and/or a deletion, optionally the edit is an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion. 64. The method of any one of claims 58-63, wherein the edit within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes is an insertion and/or a deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally wherein the edit results in an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally a truncated protein. 65. The method of any one of claims 58-64, wherein the edit results in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. 66. The method of any one of claims 58-65, wherein the edit results in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. 67. A method for making a Brassica plant, comprising: (a) contacting a population of Brassica plant cells comprising an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene with a nuclease linked to a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., editing system) that binds to a sequence (i) having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134, (ii) comprising a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (iii) encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135; (b) selecting a plant cell from the population of Brassica plant cells in which an endogenous GL2 gene has been mutated, thereby producing a Brassica plant cell comprising a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene; and (c) growing the selected Brassica plant cell into a Brassica plant. 68. A method for modifying trichomes, reducing the number of trichomes or eliminating trichomes in a Brassica plant, comprising (a) contacting a Brassica plant cell comprising an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene with a nuclease targeting the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the nuclease is linked to a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., editing system) that binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (i) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (ii) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (iii) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135 to produce a Brassica plant cell comprising a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene; and (b) growing the Brassica plant cell into a Brassica plant comprising the mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene, thereby producing a Brassica plant having a mutated endogenous GL2 gene and modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes. 69. A method for producing a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutated endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with a nuclease comprising a cleavage domain and a nucleic acid binding domain, wherein the nucleic acid binding domain binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene. 70. A method for producing a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising a mutated endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with a nuclease comprising a cleavage domain and a nucleic acid binding domain, wherein the nucleic acid binding domain binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 90% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-89 or 90-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes. 71. The method of any one of claims 67-71, wherein the nuclease cleaves the endogenous GL2 gene, thereby introducing the mutation into the endogenous GL2 gene. 72. The method of any one of claims 67-71, wherein the Brassica plant or part thereof comprises two endogenous GL2 genes (e.g., in A subgenome and in B subgenome) and the mutation is introduced into each of the two endogenous GL2 genes. 73. The method of any one of claims 67-72, wherein the mutation is a non-natural mutation.

74. The method of any one of claims 67-73, wherein the mutation is a substitution, an insertion and/or a deletion. 75. The method of any one of claims 67-74, wherein the mutation is a dominant negative mutation, a recessive mutation, a null mutation and/or a knock down mutation. 76. The method of any one of claims 67-75, wherein the mutation is an insertion and/or a deletion, optionally wherein the mutation is an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion. 77. The method of any one of claims 67-76, wherein the mutation is an insertion and/or a deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally resulting in a truncated protein. 78. The method of any one of claims 67-77, wherein the mutation comprises a point mutation. 79. The method of any one of claims 67-78, wherein the mutation is a deletion of one base pair to about 100 base pairs. 80. The method of any one of claims 67-79, wherein the nuclease is a zinc finger nuclease, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALEN), endonuclease or a CRISPR-Cas effector protein. 81. The method of any one of claims 67-80 wherein the nucleic acid binding domain is a zinc finger, transcription activator-like DNA binding domain (TAL), argonaute or a CRISPR- Cas effector DNA binding domain. 82. The method of any one of claims 67-81, wherein the Brassica plant is B. oleracea (e.g., B. oleracea var. oleracea, B. oleracea var. capitata, B. oleracea var. botrytis, B. oleracea var. gemmifera, B. oleracea var. sabauda, B. oleracea var. gongyiodes, B. oleracea var. italica, B. oleracea var. sabellica, B. oleracea var. acephala), B. villanosa, B. juncea, B. rapa (B. rapa subsp. pekinensis, B. rapa subsp. Chinensis, B. rapa subsp. rapa), B. napus, B. carinata, B. campestris, B. nigra or Raphanus raphanistrum (e.g., Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. Sativus), optionally wherein the Brassica plant is B. juncea. 83. The method of any one of claims 67-82, wherein the mutation results in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. 84. The method of any one of claims 67-83, wherein the mutation results in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. 85. A Brassica plant produced by any one of the methods of claims 67-84. 86. A guide nucleic acid that binds to a target site in a GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, wherein the target site is in a region of the GL2 gene having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. 87. The guide nucleic acid of claim 86, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer comprising a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:103-105, or any combination thereof. 88. A system comprising the guide nucleic acid of claim 86 or claim 87 and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein that associates with the guide nucleic acid. 89. The system of claim 88, further comprising a tracr nucleic acid that associates with the guide nucleic acid and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein, optionally wherein the tracr nucleic acid and the guide nucleic acid are covalently linked. 90. A gene editing system comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector protein in association with a guide nucleic acid, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer sequence that binds to an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene.

91. The gene editing system of claim 90, wherein the GL2 gene: (a) comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. 92. The gene editing system of claim 90 or claim 91, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer sequence comprising a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:103- 105, or any combination thereof. 93. The gene editing system of any one of claims 90-92, further comprising a tracr nucleic acid that associates with the guide nucleic acid and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein, optionally wherein the tracr nucleic acid and the guide nucleic acid are covalently linked. 94. A complex comprising a guide nucleic acid and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein comprising a cleavage domain, wherein the guide nucleic acid binds to a target site in an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene in a Brassica plant, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, and the cleavage domain cleaves a target strand in the GL2 gene. 95. An expression cassette comprising (a) a polynucleotide encoding CRISPR-Cas effector protein comprising a cleavage domain and (b) a guide nucleic acid that binds to a target site in an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer sequence that is complementary to and binds to (i) a portion of a nucleic acid having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (ii) a portion of a nucleic acid having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (iii) a portion of a nucleic acid encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. 96. A method of producing a Brassica plant comprising a mutation in one or more endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) genes and at least one polynucleotide of interest, the method comprising crossing a Brassica first plant, which is the Brassica plant of any one of claims 1-21, 29, 30, 43-46 or 85, with a second Brassica plant that comprises the at least one polynucleotide of interest to produce progeny Brassica plants; and selecting progeny Brassica plants comprising the mutation in the GL2 gene and the at least one polynucleotide of interest, thereby producing the Brassica plant comprising a mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 genes and at least one polynucleotide of interest. 97. A method of producing a Brassica plant comprising a mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 genes and at least one polynucleotide of interest, the method comprising introducing at least one polynucleotide of interest into a Brassica plant of any one of claims 1-21, 29, 30, 43-46 or 85, thereby producing a Brassica plant comprising a mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 genes and at least one polynucleotide of interest. 98. A method of producing a Brassica plant comprising a mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 genes and exhibiting a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits, comprising crossing a first Brassica plant, which is the Brassica plant of any one of claims 1-21, 29, 30, 43-46 or 85, with a second Brassica plant that exhibits a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits; and selecting progeny Brassica plants comprising the mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 genes and a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits, thereby producing the Brassica plant comprising a mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 genes and exhibiting a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits as compared to a control Brassica plant. 99. A method of controlling weeds in a container (e.g., pot, or seed tray and the like), a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a field, a recreational area, a lawn, or on a roadside, comprising applying an herbicide to one or more (a plurality) Brassica plants of any one of 1-21, 29, 30, 43- 46 or 85 growing in a container, a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a field, a recreational area, a lawn, or on a roadside, thereby controlling the weeds in the container, the growth chamber, the greenhouse, the field, the recreational area, the lawn, or on the roadside in which the one or more Brassica plants are growing. 100. A method of reducing insect predation on a Brassica plant, comprising applying an insecticide to one or more Brassica plants of any one of claims 1-21, 29, 30, 43-46 or 85, thereby reducing insect predation on the one or more Brassica plants. 101. A method of reducing fungal disease on a Brassica plant, comprising applying a fungicide to one or more Brassica plants of any one of claims 1-21, 29, 30, 43-46 or 85, thereby reducing fungal disease on the one or more Brassica plants. 102. The method of claim 100 or claim 101, wherein the one or more Brassica plants are growing in a container, a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a field, a recreational area, a lawn, or on a roadside. 103. The method of any one of claims 96-102, wherein the polynucleotide of interest is a polynucleotide that confers herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, disease resistance, increased yield, increased nutrient use efficiency or abiotic stress resistance.

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METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR TRICHOME REMOVAL STATEMENT REGARDING ELECTRONIC FILING OF A SEQUENCE LISTING A Sequence Listing in XML format, entitled 1499-80WO_ST26.xml, 616,432bytes in size, generated on January 5, 2023 and filed herewith, is hereby incorporated by reference into the specification for its disclosures. STATEMENT OF PRIORITY This application claims the benefit, under 35 U.S.C. § 119 (e), of U.S. Provisional Application No.63/297,070 filed on January 6, 2022, the entire contents of which is incorporated by reference herein. FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying GLABRA2 (GL2) genes in Brassica plants. The invention further relates to Brassica plants and parts thereof generated using the methods and compositions of the invention and having modified trichomes, having a reduced number of trichomes or being devoid of trichomes. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Trichomes are plant hair cells that are made by the outward growth of epidermal cells. Leaf trichomes are thought to be involved in various functions, including protecting plants against insect herbivores, pathogenic microorganisms, and UV light, reducing transpiration, and increasing tolerance to freezing. In addition, trichomes may help plants attract pollinators and disperse seeds. There are two types of trichomes, glandular trichomes that secrete defense or insect attracting metabolites and metals, and a second non-glandular type that provides mainly a physical barrier. Many Brassica species have non-glandular trichomes. The texture of leaf trichomes during eating is generally considered not to be desirable and therefore, leafy greens with few or no trichomes are preferred. The present invention addresses shortcomings in the art by providing a process for reducing the presence of trichomes on plants. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION One aspect of the invention provides Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one mutation in an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide (e.g., a Homeobox-leucine zipper protein GLABRA 2 polypeptide), optionally wherein the at least one mutation may be a non-natural mutation. A second aspect of the invention provides a Brassica plant cell comprising an editing system, the editing system comprising: (a) a CRISPR-Cas effector protein; and (b) a guide nucleic acid comprising a spacer sequence with complementarity to an endogenous target gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide. A third aspect of the invention provides a Brassica plant cell comprising at least one mutation within one or more endogenous GL2 genes, wherein the at least one mutation is a base substitution, base insertion, or base deletion that is introduced using an editing system that comprises a nucleic acid binding domain that binds to a target site in the one or more endogenous GL2 genes), optionally wherein the at least one mutation may be a non-natural mutation. A fourth aspect of the invention provides a method of producing/breeding a transgene- free edited Brassica plant, comprising: crossing the Brassica plant of the invention with a transgene free Brassica plant, thereby introducing the at least one mutation into the Brassica plant that is transgene-free; and selecting a progeny Brassica plant that comprises the at least one mutation and is transgene-free, thereby producing a transgene free edited Brassica plant. A fifth aspect provides a method of providing a plurality of Brassica plants having modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes, the method comprising planting two or more Brassica plants of the invention in a growing area, thereby providing the plurality of Brassica plants having modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes as compared to a plurality of control Brassica plants not comprising the at least one mutation, optionally wherein the mutation maybe a non-natural mutation. A sixth aspect provides a method of creating a mutation in one or more endogenous GL2 gene(s) in a Brassica plant, comprising: (a) targeting a gene editing system to a portion of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes that comprises a sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and (b) selecting a Brassica plant that comprises a modification located in a region of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. A seventh aspect provides a method of generating variation in a GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, comprising: introducing an editing system into a Brassica plant cell, wherein the editing system is targeted to a region of a GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide, and contacting the region of the GL2 gene with the editing system, thereby introducing a mutation into the GL2 gene and generating variation in the GL2 gene of the Brassica plant cell. An eighth aspect provides a method of detecting a mutant GL2 gene (a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene) in a Brassica plant is provided, the method comprising detecting in the genome of a Brassica plant an endogenous GL2 gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide, optionally wherein the mutation is located in the 5' region of the GL2 gene, the 5' region having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. An ninth aspect provides a method for editing a specific site in the genome of a Brassica plant cell, the method comprising: cleaving, in a site-specific manner, a target site within an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene in the Brassica plant cell, the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134, (b) comprising a region having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102, and/or (c) encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135, thereby generating an edit in the endogenous GL2 gene of the Brassica plant cell and producing a Brassica plant cell comprising the edit in the endogenous GL2 gene. A tenth aspect provides a method for making a Brassica plant, the method comprising: (a) contacting a population of Brassica plant cells comprising an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene with a nuclease linked to a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., editing system) that binds to a sequence (i) having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134, (ii) comprising a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (iii) encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135; (b) selecting a plant cell from the population of Brassica plant cells in which an endogenous GL2 gene has been mutated, thereby producing a Brassica plant cell comprising a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene; and (c) growing the selected Brassica plant cell into a Brassica plant. An eleventh aspect provides a method for modifying, reducing the number of or eliminating trichomes in a Brassica plant, comprising (a) contacting a Brassica plant cell comprising an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene with a nuclease targeting the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the nuclease is linked to a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., editing system) that binds to a target site within the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (i) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134; (ii) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (iii) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135 to produce a Brassica plant cell comprising a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene; and (b) growing the Brassica plant cell into a Brassica plant comprising the mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene, thereby producing a Brassica plant having a mutated endogenous GL2 gene and modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes. A twelfth aspect provides a method of producing a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutated endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with a nuclease comprising a cleavage domain and a nucleic acid binding domain, wherein the nucleic acid binding domain binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes. A thirteenth aspect of the invention provides a method for producing a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising a mutated endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with a nuclease comprising a cleavage domain and a nucleic acid binding domain, wherein the nucleic acid binding domain binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 90% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-89 or 90-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes. A fourteenth aspect provides a guide nucleic acid that binds to a target site in a GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, wherein the target site is in a region of the GL2 gene having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. In a fifteenth aspect, a system is provided that comprises a guide nucleic acid of the invention and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein that associates with the guide nucleic acid. A sixteenth aspect provides a gene editing system comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector protein in association with a guide nucleic acid, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer sequence that binds to an endogenous GLABRA (GL2) gene. In a seventeenth aspect, a complex is provided, the complex comprising a guide nucleic acid and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein comprising a cleavage domain, wherein the guide nucleic acid binds to a target site in an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135, and the cleavage domain cleaves a target strand in the GL2 gene. In an eighteenth aspect, an expression cassette is provided, the expression cassette comprising (a) a polynucleotide encoding CRISPR-Cas effector protein comprising a cleavage domain and (b) a guide nucleic acid that binds to a target site in an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer sequence that is complementary to and binds to (i) a portion of a nucleic acid having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134; (ii) a portion of a nucleic acid having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (iii) a portion of a nucleic acid encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135. Further provided are polypeptides, polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes and vectors for making a Brassica plant of this invention. These and other aspects of the invention are set forth in more detail in the description of the invention below. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEQUENCES SEQ ID NOs:1-17 are exemplary Cas12a amino acid sequences useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:18-20 are exemplary Cas12a nucleotide sequences useful with this invention. SEQ ID NO:21-22 are exemplary regulatory sequences encoding a promoter and intron. SEQ ID NOs:23-29 are exemplary cytosine deaminase sequences useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:30-40 are exemplary adenine deaminase amino acid sequences useful with this invention. SEQ ID NO:41 is an exemplary uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) sequences useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:42-44 provide example peptide tags and affinity polypeptides useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:45-55 provide example RNA recruiting motifs and corresponding affinity polypeptides useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:56-57 are exemplary Cas9 polypeptide sequences useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:58-68 are exemplary Cas9 polynucleotide sequences useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:69, 72, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118, 121, 124, 127, 130, and 133 are example GLABRA2 (GL2) genomic sequences from Brassica juncea. SEQ ID NOs:70, 73, 107, 110, 113, 116, 119, 122, 125, 128, 131, and 134 are example GL2 coding sequences from Brassica juncea, corresponding to SEQ ID NOs:69, 72, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118, 121, 124, 127, 130, and 133, respectively. SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and 135 are example GL2 polypeptide sequences from Brassica juncea, which are encoded by SEQ ID NOs:69 (70), 72 (73), 106 (107), 109 (110), 112 (113), 115 (116), 118 (119), 121 (122), 124 (125), 127 (128), 130 (131), and 133 (134), respectively. SEQ ID NOs:75-102 are example portions or regions of Brassica GL2 genomic and coding sequences as described herein. SEQ ID NOs:103-105 are example spacer sequences for nucleic acid guides useful with this invention. SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, and 184 are example edited GL2 genomic sequences, edited as described herein. SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, and 185 are example mutated GL2 polypeptides produced by the edited GL2 genomic sequences of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, and 184, respectively. SEQ ID NOs:186-195 are fragments deleted from endogenous GL2 genomic sequences using the editing tools as described herein (see Table 3). DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention now will be described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples, in which embodiments of the invention are shown. This description is not intended to be a detailed catalog of all the different ways in which the invention may be implemented, or all the features that may be added to the instant invention. For example, features illustrated with respect to one embodiment may be incorporated into other embodiments, and features illustrated with respect to a particular embodiment may be deleted from that embodiment. Thus, the invention contemplates that in some embodiments of the invention, any feature or combination of features set forth herein can be excluded or omitted. In addition, numerous variations and additions to the various embodiments suggested herein will be apparent to those skilled in the art in light of the instant disclosure, which do not depart from the instant invention. Hence, the following descriptions are intended to illustrate some particular embodiments of the invention, and not to exhaustively specify all permutations, combinations and variations thereof. Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. All publications, patent applications, patents and other references cited herein are incorporated by reference in their entireties for the teachings relevant to the sentence and/or paragraph in which the reference is presented. Unless the context indicates otherwise, it is specifically intended that the various features of the invention described herein can be used in any combination. Moreover, the present invention also contemplates that in some embodiments of the invention, any feature or combination of features set forth herein can be excluded or omitted. To illustrate, if the specification states that a composition comprises components A, B and C, it is specifically intended that any of A, B or C, or a combination thereof, can be omitted and disclaimed singularly or in any combination. As used in the description of the invention and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Also as used herein, "and/or" refers to and encompasses any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items, as well as the lack of combinations when interpreted in the alternative ("or"). The term "about," as used herein when referring to a measurable value such as an amount or concentration and the like, is meant to encompass variations of ± 10%, ± 5%, ± 1%, ± 0.5%, or even ± 0.1% of the specified value as well as the specified value. For example, "about X" where X is the measurable value, is meant to include X as well as variations of ± 10%, ± 5%, ± 1%, ± 0.5%, or even ± 0.1% of X. A range provided herein for a measurable value may include any other range and/or individual value therein. As used herein, phrases such as "between X and Y" and "between about X and Y" should be interpreted to include X and Y. As used herein, phrases such as "between about X and Y" mean "between about X and about Y" and phrases such as "from about X to Y" mean "from about X to about Y." Recitation of ranges of values herein are merely intended to serve as a shorthand method of referring individually to each separate value falling within the range, unless otherwise indicated herein, and each separate value is incorporated into the specification as if it were individually recited herein. For example, if the range 10 to 15 is disclosed, then 11, 12, 13, and 14 are also disclosed. The term "comprise," "comprises" and "comprising" as used herein, specify the presence of the stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. As used herein, the transitional phrase "consisting essentially of" means that the scope of a claim is to be interpreted to encompass the specified materials or steps recited in the claim and those that do not materially affect the basic and novel characteristic(s) of the claimed invention. Thus, the term "consisting essentially of" when used in a claim of this invention is not intended to be interpreted to be equivalent to "comprising." As used herein, the terms "increase," "increasing," "increased," "enhance," "enhanced," "enhancing," and "enhancement" (and grammatical variations thereof) describe an elevation of at least about 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 500% or more as compared to a control. As used herein, the terms "reduce," "reduced," "reducing," "reduction," "diminish," and "decrease" (and grammatical variations thereof), describe, for example, a decrease of at least about 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 35%, 50%, 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%, 99.6%, 99.7%, 99.8%, 99.9%, or 100% as compared to a control. In particular embodiments, the reduction can result in no or essentially no (i.e., an insignificant amount, e.g., less than about 10% or even 5%) detectable activity or amount. For example, in some embodiments, a Brassica plant edited as described herein may have a reduced number of trichomes of at least 70% (e.g., at least 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or 100%) as compared to a control plant (e.g., a plant devoid of the same edit). A control plant is typically the same plant as the edited plant, but the control plant has not been similarly edited and therefore is devoid of the mutation. A control plant maybe an isogenic plant and/or a wild type plant. Thus, a control plant can be the same breeding line, variety, or cultivar as the subject plant into which a mutation as described herein is introgressed, but the control breeding line, variety, or cultivar is free of the mutation. In some embodiments, a comparison between a Brassica plant of the invention and a control plant is made under the same growth conditions, e.g., the same environmental conditions (soil, hydration, light, heat, nutrients, and the like). As used herein, the terms "express," "expresses," "expressed" or "expression," and the like, with respect to a nucleic acid molecule and/or a nucleotide sequence (e.g., RNA or DNA) indicates that the nucleic acid molecule and/or a nucleotide sequence is transcribed and, optionally, translated. Thus, a nucleic acid molecule and/or a nucleotide sequence may express a polypeptide of interest or, for example, a functional untranslated RNA. A "heterologous" or a "recombinant" nucleotide sequence is a nucleotide sequence not naturally associated with a host cell into which it is introduced, including non- naturally occurring multiple copies of a naturally occurring nucleotide sequence. A "heterologous" nucleotide/polypeptide may originate from a foreign species, or, if from the same species, is substantially modified from its native form in composition and/or genomic locus by deliberate human intervention. A "native" or "wild type" nucleic acid, nucleotide sequence, polypeptide or amino acid sequence refers to a naturally occurring or endogenous nucleic acid, nucleotide sequence, polypeptide or amino acid sequence. In some contexts, a "wild type" nucleic acid is a nucleic acid that is not edited as described herein and can differ from an "endogenous" gene that may be edited as described herein (e.g., a mutated endogenous gene). In some contexts, a "wild type" nucleic acid (e.g., unedited) may be heterologous to the organism in which the wild type nucleic acid is found (e.g., a transgenic organism). As an example, a "wild type endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene" is a GL2 gene that is naturally occurring in or endogenous to the reference organism, e.g., a Brassica plant, and may be subject to modification as described herein, after which, such a modified endogenous gene is no longer wild type. As used herein, the term "heterozygous" refers to a genetic status wherein different alleles reside at corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes. As used herein, the term "homozygous" refers to a genetic status wherein identical alleles reside at corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes. As used herein, the term "allele" refers to one of two or more different nucleotides or nucleotide sequences that occur at a specific locus. A "null allele" is a nonfunctional allele (loss of function allele; knockout mutation) caused by a genetic mutation that results in a complete lack of production of the corresponding protein or produces a protein that is non-functional. A "recessive mutation" is a mutation in a gene that produces a phenotype when homozygous, but the phenotype is not observable when the locus is heterozygous. A "dominant mutation" is a mutation in a gene that produces a mutant phenotype in the presence of a non-mutated copy of the gene. A dominant mutation may be a loss or a gain of function mutation, a hypomorphic mutation, a hypermorphic mutation or a weak loss of function or a weak gain of function. A "dominant negative mutation" is a mutation that produces an altered gene product (e.g., having an aberrant function relative to wild type), which gene product adversely affects the function of the wild-type allele or gene product. For example, a "dominant negative mutation" may block a function of the wild type gene product. A dominant negative mutation may also be referred to as an "antimorphic mutation." A "semi-dominant mutation" refers to a mutation in which the penetrance of the phenotype in a heterozygous organism is less than that observed for a homozygous organism. A "weak loss-of-function mutation" is a mutation that results in a gene product having partial function or reduced function (partially inactivated; e.g., knockdown mutation) as compared to the wildtype gene product. A "hypomorphic mutation" is a mutation that results in a partial loss of gene function, which may occur through reduced expression (e.g., reduced protein and/or reduced RNA) or reduced functional performance (e.g., reduced activity), but not a complete loss of function/activity. A “hypomorphic” allele is a semi-functional allele caused by a genetic mutation that results in production of the corresponding protein that functions at anywhere between 1% and 99% of normal efficiency (e.g., knockdown mutation). A "hypermorphic mutation" is a mutation that results in increased expression of the gene product and/or increased activity of the gene product. A "locus" is a position on a chromosome where a gene or marker or allele is located. In some embodiments, a locus may encompass one or more nucleotides. As used herein, the terms "desired allele," "target allele" and/or "allele of interest" are used interchangeably to refer to an allele associated with a desired trait. In some embodiments, a desired allele may be associated with either an increase or a decrease (relative to a control) of or in a given trait, depending on the nature of the desired phenotype. A marker is "associated with" a trait when said trait is linked to it and when the presence of the marker is an indicator of whether and/or to what extent the desired trait or trait form will occur in a plant/germplasm comprising the marker. Similarly, a marker is "associated with" an allele or chromosome interval when it is linked to it and when the presence of the marker is an indicator of whether the allele or chromosome interval is present in a plant/germplasm comprising the marker. As used herein, the terms "backcross" and "backcrossing" refer to the process whereby a progeny plant is crossed back to one of its parents one or more times (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.). In a backcrossing scheme, the "donor" parent refers to the parental plant with the desired gene or locus to be introgressed. The "recipient" parent (used one or more times) or "recurrent" parent (used two or more times) refers to the parental plant into which the gene or locus is being introgressed. For example, see Ragot, M. et al. Marker-assisted Backcrossing: A Practical Example, in TECHNIQUES ET UTILISATIONS DES MARQUEURS MOLECULAIRES LES COLLOQUES, Vol.72, pp.45-56 (1995); and Openshaw et al., Marker-assisted Selection in Backcross Breeding, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE SYMPOSIUM "ANALYSIS OF MOLECULAR MARKER DATA," pp. 41-43 (1994). The initial cross gives rise to the F1 generation. The term "BC1" refers to the second use of the recurrent parent, "BC2" refers to the third use of the recurrent parent, and so on. As used herein, the terms "cross" or "crossed" refer to the fusion of gametes via pollination to produce progeny (e.g., cells, seeds or plants). The term encompasses both sexual crosses (the pollination of one plant by another) and selfing (self-pollination, e.g., when the pollen and ovule are from the same plant). The term "crossing" refers to the act of fusing gametes via pollination to produce progeny. As used herein, the terms "introgression," "introgressing" and "introgressed" refer to both the natural and artificial transmission of a desired allele or combination of desired alleles of a genetic locus or genetic loci from one genetic background to another. For example, a desired allele at a specified locus can be transmitted to at least one (e.g., one or more) progeny via a sexual cross between two parents of the same species, where at least one of the parents has the desired allele in its genome. Alternatively, for example, transmission of an allele can occur by recombination between two donor genomes, e.g., in a fused protoplast, where at least one of the donor protoplasts has the desired allele in its genome. The desired allele may be a selected allele of a marker, a QTL, a transgene, or the like. Offspring comprising the desired allele can be backcrossed one or more times (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, or more times) to a line having a desired genetic background, selecting for the desired allele, with the result being that the desired allele becomes fixed in the desired genetic background. For example, a marker associated with increased yield under non-water stress conditions may be introgressed from a donor into a recurrent parent that does not comprise the marker and does not exhibit increased yield under non-water stress conditions. The resulting offspring could then be backcrossed one or more times and selected until the progeny possess the genetic marker(s) associated with increased yield under non-water stress conditions in the recurrent parent background. A "genetic map" is a description of genetic linkage relationships among loci on one or more chromosomes within a given species, generally depicted in a diagrammatic or tabular form. For each genetic map, distances between loci are measured by the recombination frequencies between them. Recombination between loci can be detected using a variety of markers. A genetic map is a product of the mapping population, types of markers used, and the polymorphic potential of each marker between different populations. The order and genetic distances between loci can differ from one genetic map to another. As used herein, the term "genotype" refers to the genetic constitution of an individual (or group of individuals) at one or more genetic loci, as contrasted with the observable and/or detectable and/or manifested trait (the phenotype). Genotype is defined by the allele(s) of one or more known loci that the individual has inherited from its parents. The term genotype can be used to refer to an individual's genetic constitution at a single locus, at multiple loci, or more generally, the term genotype can be used to refer to an individual's genetic make-up for all the genes in its genome. Genotypes can be indirectly characterized, e.g., using markers and/or directly characterized by nucleic acid sequencing. As used herein, the term "germplasm" refers to genetic material of or from an individual (e.g., a plant), a group of individuals (e.g., a plant line, variety or family), or a clone derived from a line, variety, species, or culture. The germplasm can be part of an organism or cell or can be separate from the organism or cell. In general, germplasm provides genetic material with a specific genetic makeup that provides a foundation for some or all of the hereditary qualities of an organism or cell culture. As used herein, germplasm includes cells, seed or tissues from which new plants may be grown, as well as plant parts that can be cultured into a whole plant (e.g., leaves, stems, buds, roots, pollen, cells, etc.). As used herein, the terms "cultivar" and "variety" refer to a group of similar plants that by structural or genetic features and/or performance can be distinguished from other varieties within the same species. As used herein, the terms "exotic," "exotic line" and "exotic germplasm" refer to any plant, line or germplasm that is not elite. In general, exotic plants/germplasms are not derived from any known elite plant or germplasm, but rather are selected to introduce one or more desired genetic elements into a breeding program (e.g., to introduce novel alleles into a breeding program). As used herein, the term "inbred" refers to a substantially homozygous plant or variety. The term may refer to a plant or plant variety that is substantially homozygous throughout the entire genome or that is substantially homozygous with respect to a portion of the genome that is of particular interest. A "haplotype" is the genotype of an individual at a plurality of genetic loci, i.e., a combination of alleles. Typically, the genetic loci that define a haplotype are physically and genetically linked, i.e., on the same chromosome segment. The term "haplotype" can refer to polymorphisms at a particular locus, such as a single marker locus, or polymorphisms at multiple loci along a chromosomal segment. The present disclosure relates to Brassica plants (e.g., mustard plants, e.g., Brassica juncea) having at least one edit in one or more than one (e.g., two, three, four or more) endogenous GL2 gene as described herein and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control plant. A Brassica plant having modified trichomes may exhibit an increased number of aborted trichomes (e.g., at least 70% of trichomes aborted), a reduced number of fully developed trichomes (e.g., at least 70% fewer trichomes), and/or no fully developed trichomes (e.g., an absence of or devoid of fully developed trichomes). A Brassica plant having a phenotype of a reduced number of trichomes may also be described as having a reduced trichome density. As used herein a "control plant" means a plant (e.g., a Brassica plant, e.g., Brassica juncea, e.g., a mustard plant) that does not contain an edited GLABRA2 (GL2) gene as described herein the edit of which imparts an altered phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes. A control plant is used to identify and select a plant edited as described herein and that has an enhanced trait or altered phenotype as compared to the control plant. A suitable control plant can be a plant of the parental line used to generate a plant comprising a mutated GL2 gene(s), for example, a wild type plant devoid of an edit in an endogenous GL2 gene (e.g., in one or more GL2 genes; e.g., as in the GL2 gene in the subgenome A and the GL2 gene subgenome B of a Brassica plant such as B. juncea) as described herein. A suitable control plant can also be a plant that contains recombinant nucleic acids that impart other traits, for example, a transgenic plant having enhanced herbicide tolerance. A suitable control plant can in some cases be a progeny of a heterozygous or hemizygous transgenic plant line that is devoid of the mutated GL2 gene as described herein, known as a negative segregant, or a negative isogenic line. As used herein, the terms "nucleic acid," "nucleic acid molecule," "nucleotide sequence" and "polynucleotide" refer to RNA or DNA that is linear or branched, single or double stranded, or a hybrid thereof. The term also encompasses RNA/DNA hybrids. When dsRNA is produced synthetically, less common bases, such as inosine, 5-methylcytosine, 6-methyladenine, hypoxanthine and others can also be used for antisense, dsRNA, and ribozyme pairing. For example, polynucleotides that contain C-5 propyne analogues of uridine and cytidine have been shown to bind RNA with high affinity and to be potent antisense inhibitors of gene expression. Other modifications, such as modification to the phosphodiester backbone, or the 2'-hydroxy in the ribose sugar group of the RNA can also be made. As used herein, the term "nucleotide sequence" refers to a heteropolymer of nucleotides or the sequence of these nucleotides from the 5' to 3' end of a nucleic acid molecule and includes DNA or RNA molecules, including cDNA, a DNA fragment or portion, genomic DNA, synthetic (e.g., chemically synthesized) DNA, plasmid DNA, mRNA, and anti-sense RNA, any of which can be single stranded or double stranded. The terms "nucleotide sequence" "nucleic acid," "nucleic acid molecule," "nucleic acid construct," "oligonucleotide" and "polynucleotide" are also used interchangeably herein to refer to a heteropolymer of nucleotides. Nucleic acid molecules and/or nucleotide sequences provided herein are presented herein in the 5' to 3' direction, from left to right and are represented using the standard code for representing the nucleotide characters as set forth in the U.S. sequence rules, 37 CFR §§1.821 - 1.825 and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standard ST.25. A "5' region" as used herein can mean the region of a polynucleotide that is nearest the 5' end of the polynucleotide. Thus, for example, an element in the 5' region of a polynucleotide can be located anywhere from the first nucleotide located at the 5' end of the polynucleotide to the nucleotide located halfway through the polynucleotide. A "3' region" as used herein can mean the region of a polynucleotide that is nearest the 3' end of the polynucleotide. Thus, for example, an element in the 3' region of a polynucleotide can be located anywhere from the first nucleotide located at the 3' end of the polynucleotide to the nucleotide located halfway through the polynucleotide. As used herein with respect to nucleic acids, the term "fragment" or "portion" refers to a nucleic acid that is reduced in length relative (e.g., reduced by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750, 800, 850, or 900 or more nucleotides or any range or value therein) to a reference nucleic acid and that comprises, consists essentially of and/or consists of a nucleotide sequence of contiguous nucleotides identical or almost identical (e.g., 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99% identical) to a corresponding portion of the reference nucleic acid. Such a nucleic acid fragment may be, where appropriate, included in a larger polynucleotide of which it is a constituent. As an example, a repeat sequence of guide nucleic acid of this invention may comprise a "portion" of a wild type CRISPR-Cas repeat sequence (e.g., a wild type CRISPR-Cas repeat; e.g., a repeat from the CRISPR Cas system of, for example, a Cas9, Cas12a (Cpf1), Cas12b, Cas12c (C2c3), Cas12d (CasY), Cas12e (CasX), Cas12g, Cas12h, Cas12i, C2c4, C2c5, C2c8, C2c9, C2c10, Cas14a, Cas14b, and/or a Cas14c, and the like). In some embodiments, a nucleic acid fragment may comprise, consist essentially of or consist of about 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 150, 155, 160, 165, 170, 175, 180, 185, 190, 195, 200, 205, 210, 215, 220, 225, 230, 235, 240, 245, 250, 255, 260, 265, 270, 275, 280, 285, 290, 295, 300, 305, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, 360, 370, 380, 390, 395, 400, 410, 415, 420, 425, 430, 435, 440, 445, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650, 700, 750, 800, 850, 900, 950, 1000, 1100, 1150, 1200, 1250, 1300, 1350, 1400, 1450, 1500, 1550, 1600, 1650, 1700, 1750, 1800, 1900, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, or 6000 or more consecutive nucleotides, or any range or value therein, of a GL2 nucleic acid, optionally a fragment of a GL2 gene may be about 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140,141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, or 150 consecutive nucleotides to about 155, 160, 165, 170, 175, 180, 185, 190,191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 205, 210, 215, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 240, 245, 250, 255, 260, 216, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 275, 280, 285, 290, 295, 300, 305, 310, 315, 320, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349 or 350, or more consecutive nucleotides in length, or any range or value therein, optionally about 60 consecutive nucleotides to about 330 consecutive nucleotides, or any range or value therein, optionally 63, 103, 143, 223, or 329 consecutive nucleotides (e.g., a fragment or portion of any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134 (e.g., SEQ ID NOs:75-102). In some embodiments, a "sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domain" may bind to one or more fragments or portions of nucleotide sequences (e.g., DNA, RNA) encoding, for example, a GL2 polypeptide (e.g., a homeobox-leucine zipper protein GLABRA 2 polypeptide) as described herein. As used herein with respect to polypeptides, the term "fragment" or "portion" may refer to a polypeptide that is reduced in length relative to a reference polypeptide and that comprises, consists essentially of and/or consists of an amino acid sequence of contiguous amino acids identical or almost identical (e.g., 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99% identical) to a corresponding portion of the reference polypeptide. Such a polypeptide fragment may be, where appropriate, included in a larger polypeptide of which it is a constituent. In some embodiments, a polypeptide fragment may comprise, consist essentially of, or consist of at least about 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100, 125, 150, 175, 200, 225, 250, 260, 270, 280, or 290 or more consecutive amino acids of a reference polypeptide. In some embodiments, a polypeptide fragment may comprise, consist essentially of or consist of about 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130 or 135, or more consecutive amino acid residues, or any range or value therein, of a GL2 polypeptide (e.g., a fragment or a portion of any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135). In some embodiments, a mutation of a GL2 gene results in a GL2 polypeptide having a C-terminal truncation of about 450 to 600 or more amino acid residues. In some embodiments, a mutation of an endogenous GL2 gene results in no detectable GL2 polypeptide in a Brasica plant or part thereof comprising the GL2 mutation. In some embodiments, a "portion" or "region" in reference to a nucleic acid means at least 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135,140, 145, 150, 155, 160, 165, 170, 175, 180, 185, 190, 195, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280, 285, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, 360, 370, 380, 390, 395, 400, 405, 410, 415, 420, 425, 430, 435, 440, 445, 450, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, 4000 or 4500 or more consecutive nucleotides from a gene (e.g., consecutive nucleotides from a GL2 gene), or any range or value therein, optionally a "portion" or "region" of a GL2 gene may be about 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 110, 115, 120, 125, 130, 135, 140,141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, or 150 consecutive nucleotides to about 155, 160, 165, 170, 175, 180, 185, 190,191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 205, 210, 215, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 240, 245, 250, 255, 260, 216, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 275, 280, 285, 290, 295, 300, 305, 310, 315, 320, 325, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349 or 350 or more consecutive nucleotides in length, or any range or value therein, optionally about 60 consecutive nucleotides to about 330 consecutive nucleotides, or any range or value therein (e.g., a fragment or portion of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134 (e.g., SEQ ID NOs:75-102)). In some embodiments, a "portion" or "region" of a GL2 polypeptide sequence may be about 5 to about 100 or more consecutive amino acid residues in length (e.g., about 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or 100, or more consecutive amino acid residues or any range or value therein, in length (e.g., a portion of any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135). As used herein with respect to nucleic acids, the term "functional fragment" refers to nucleic acid that encodes a functional fragment of a polypeptide. A “functional fragment” with respect to a polypeptide is a fragment of a polypeptide that retains one or more of the activities of the native reference polypeptide. The term "gene," as used herein, refers to a nucleic acid molecule capable of being used to produce mRNA, antisense RNA, miRNA, anti-microRNA antisense oligodeoxyribonucleotide (AMO) and the like. Genes may or may not be capable of being used to produce a functional protein or gene product. Genes can include both coding and non-coding regions (e.g., introns, regulatory elements, promoters, enhancers, termination sequences and/or 5' and 3' untranslated regions). A gene may be "isolated" by which is meant a nucleic acid that is substantially or essentially free from components normally found in association with the nucleic acid in its natural state. Such components include other cellular material, culture medium from recombinant production, and/or various chemicals used in chemically synthesizing the nucleic acid. The term "mutation" refers to point mutations (e.g., missense, or nonsense, or insertions or deletions of single base pairs that result in frame shifts), insertions, deletions, inversions and/or truncations. When the mutation is a substitution of a residue within an amino acid sequence with another residue, or a deletion or insertion of one or more residues within a sequence, the mutations are typically described by identifying the original residue followed by the position of the residue within the sequence and by the identity of the newly substituted residue. A truncation can include a truncation at the C-terminal end of a polypeptide or at the N- terminal end of a polypeptide. A truncation of a polypeptide can be the result of a deletion of the corresponding 5' end or 3' end of the gene encoding the polypeptide. A frameshift mutation can occur when deletions or insertions of one or more base pairs are introduced into a gene, optionally resulting in an out-of-frame mutation or an in-frame mutation. Frameshift mutations in a gene can result in the production of a polypeptide that is longer, shorter or the same length as the wild type polypeptide depending on when the first stop codon occurs following the mutated region of the gene. As an example, an out-of-frame mutation that produces a premature stop codon can produce a polypeptide that is shorter that the wild type polypeptide, or, in some embodiments, the polypeptide may be absent/undetectable. A DNA inversion is the result of a rotation of a genetic fragment within a region of a chromosome. The terms "complementary" or "complementarity," as used herein, refer to the natural binding of polynucleotides under permissive salt and temperature conditions by base-pairing. For example, the sequence "A-G-T" (5' to 3') binds to the complementary sequence "T-C-A" (3' to 5'). Complementarity between two single-stranded molecules may be "partial," in which only some of the nucleotides bind, or it may be complete when total complementarity exists between the single stranded molecules. The degree of complementarity between nucleic acid strands has significant effects on the efficiency and strength of hybridization between nucleic acid strands. "Complement," as used herein, can mean 100% complementarity with the comparator nucleotide sequence or it can mean less than 100% complementarity (e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, and the like, complementarity) to the comparator nucleotide sequence. Different nucleic acids or proteins having homology are referred to herein as "homologues." The term homologue includes homologous sequences from the same and from other species and orthologous sequences from the same and other species. "Homology" refers to the level of similarity between two or more nucleic acid and/or amino acid sequences in terms of percent of positional identity (i.e., sequence similarity or identity). Homology also refers to the concept of similar functional properties among different nucleic acids or proteins. Thus, the compositions and methods of the invention further comprise homologues to the nucleotide sequences and polypeptide sequences of this invention. "Orthologous," as used herein, refers to homologous nucleotide sequences and/ or amino acid sequences in different species that arose from a common ancestral gene during speciation. A homologue of a nucleotide sequence of this invention has a substantial sequence identity (e.g., at least about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) to said nucleotide sequence of the invention. As used herein "sequence identity" refers to the extent to which two optimally aligned polynucleotide or polypeptide sequences are invariant throughout a window of alignment of components, e.g., nucleotides or amino acids. "Identity" can be readily calculated by known methods including, but not limited to, those described in: Computational Molecular Biology (Lesk, A. M., ed.) Oxford University Press, New York (1988); Biocomputing: Informatics and Genome Projects (Smith, D. W., ed.) Academic Press, New York (1993); Computer Analysis of Sequence Data, Part I (Griffin, A. M., and Griffin, H. G., eds.) Humana Press, New Jersey (1994); Sequence Analysis in Molecular Biology (von Heinje, G., ed.) Academic Press (1987); and Sequence Analysis Primer (Gribskov, M. and Devereux, J., eds.) Stockton Press, New York (1991). As used herein, the term "percent sequence identity" or "percent identity" refers to the percentage of identical nucleotides in a linear polynucleotide sequence of a reference ("query") polynucleotide molecule (or its complementary strand) as compared to a test ("subject") polynucleotide molecule (or its complementary strand) when the two sequences are optimally aligned. In some embodiments, "percent sequence identity" can refer to the percentage of identical amino acids in an amino acid sequence as compared to a reference polypeptide. As used herein, the phrase "substantially identical," or "substantial identity" in the context of two nucleic acid molecules, nucleotide sequences, or polypeptide sequences, refers to two or more sequences or subsequences that have at least about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100% nucleotide or amino acid residue identity, when compared and aligned for maximum correspondence, as measured using one of the following sequence comparison algorithms or by visual inspection. In some embodiments of the invention, the substantial identity exists over a region of consecutive nucleotides of a nucleotide sequence of the invention that is about 10 nucleotides to about 20 nucleotides, about 10 nucleotides to about 25 nucleotides, about 10 nucleotides to about 30 nucleotides, about 15 nucleotides to about 25 nucleotides, about 30 nucleotides to about 40 nucleotides, about 50 nucleotides to about 60 nucleotides, about 70 nucleotides to about 80 nucleotides, about 90 nucleotides to about 100 nucleotides, about 100 nucleotides to about 200 nucleotides, about 100 nucleotides to about 300 nucleotides, about 100 nucleotides to about 400 nucleotides, about 100 nucleotides to about 500 nucleotides, about 100 nucleotides to about 600 nucleotides, about 100 nucleotides to about 800 nucleotides, about 100 nucleotides to about 900 nucleotides, or more in length, or any range therein, up to the full length of the sequence. In some embodiments, nucleotide sequences can be substantially identical over at least about 20 nucleotides (e.g., about 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 50, 60, 70, or 80 nucleotides or more). In some embodiments of the invention, the substantial identity exists over a region of consecutive amino acid residues of a polypeptide of the invention that is about 3 amino acid residues to about 20 amino acid residues, about 5 amino acid residues to about 25 amino acid residues, about 7 amino acid residues to about 30 amino acid residues, about 10 amino acid residues to about 25 amino acid residues, about 15 amino acid residues to about 30 amino acid residues, about 20 amino acid residues to about 40 amino acid residues, about 25 amino acid residues to about 40 amino acid residues, about 25 amino acid residues to about 50 amino acid residues, about 30 amino acid residues to about 50 amino acid residues, about 40 amino acid residues to about 50 amino acid residues, about 40 amino acid residues to about 70 amino acid residues, about 50 amino acid residues to about 70 amino acid residues, about 60 amino acid residues to about 80 amino acid residues, about 70 amino acid residues to about 80 amino acid residues, about 90 amino acid residues to about 100 amino acid residues, or more amino acid residues in length, and any range therein, up to the full length of the sequence. In some embodiments, polypeptide sequences can be substantially identical to one another over at least about 8 consecutive amino acid residues (e.g., about 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 130, 140, or 150 or more amino acids in length or more consecutive amino acid residues). In some embodiments, two or more GL2 polypeptides may be identical or substantially identical (e.g., at least 70% to 99.9% identical, e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%.99.9% identical or any range or value therein) over at least 8 consecutive amino acids to about 150 consecutive amino acids. In some embodiments, two or more GL2 polypeptides may be identical or substantially identical over at least 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 consecutive amino acids to about 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, or 40 consecutive amino acids). For sequence comparison, typically one sequence acts as a reference sequence to which test sequences are compared. When using a sequence comparison algorithm, test and reference sequences are entered into a computer, subsequence coordinates are designated if necessary, and sequence algorithm program parameters are designated. The sequence comparison algorithm then calculates the percent sequence identity for the test sequence(s) relative to the reference sequence, based on the designated program parameters. Optimal alignment of sequences for aligning a comparison window are well known to those skilled in the art and may be conducted by tools such as the local homology algorithm of Smith and Waterman, the homology alignment algorithm of Needleman and Wunsch, the search for similarity method of Pearson and Lipman, and optionally by computerized implementations of these algorithms such as GAP, BESTFIT, FASTA, and TFASTA available as part of the GCG® Wisconsin Package® (Accelrys Inc., San Diego, CA). An "identity fraction" for aligned segments of a test sequence and a reference sequence is the number of identical components which are shared by the two aligned sequences divided by the total number of components in the reference sequence segment, e.g., the entire reference sequence or a smaller defined part of the reference sequence. Percent sequence identity is represented as the identity fraction multiplied by 100. The comparison of one or more polynucleotide sequences may be to a full-length polynucleotide sequence or a portion thereof, or to a longer polynucleotide sequence. For purposes of this invention "percent identity" may also be determined using BLASTX version 2.0 for translated nucleotide sequences and BLASTN version 2.0 for polynucleotide sequences. Two nucleotide sequences may also be considered substantially complementary when the two sequences hybridize to each other under stringent conditions. In some embodiments, two nucleotide sequences considered to be substantially complementary hybridize to each other under highly stringent conditions. "Stringent hybridization conditions" and "stringent hybridization wash conditions" in the context of nucleic acid hybridization experiments such as Southern and Northern hybridizations are sequence dependent and are different under different environmental parameters. An extensive guide to the hybridization of nucleic acids is found in Tijssen Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology-Hybridization with Nucleic Acid Probes part I chapter 2 "Overview of principles of hybridization and the strategy of nucleic acid probe assays" Elsevier, New York (1993). Generally, highly stringent hybridization and wash conditions are selected to be about 5ºC lower than the thermal melting point (Tm) for the specific sequence at a defined ionic strength and pH. The T m is the temperature (under defined ionic strength and pH) at which 50% of the target sequence hybridizes to a perfectly matched probe. Very stringent conditions are selected to be equal to the T m for a particular probe. An example of stringent hybridization conditions for hybridization of complementary nucleotide sequences which have more than 100 complementary residues on a filter in a Southern or northern blot is 50% formamide with 1 mg of heparin at 42ºC, with the hybridization being carried out overnight. An example of highly stringent wash conditions is 0.15M NaCl at 72ºC for about 15 minutes. An example of stringent wash conditions is a 0.2x SSC wash at 65ºC for 15 minutes (see, Sambrook, infra, for a description of SSC buffer). Often, a high stringency wash is preceded by a low stringency wash to remove background probe signal. An example of a medium stringency wash for a duplex of, e.g., more than 100 nucleotides, is 1x SSC at 45ºC for 15 minutes. An example of a low stringency wash for a duplex of, e.g., more than 100 nucleotides, is 4-6x SSC at 40ºC for 15 minutes. For short probes (e.g., about 10 to 50 nucleotides), stringent conditions typically involve salt concentrations of less than about 1.0 M Na ion, typically about 0.01 to 1.0 M Na ion concentration (or other salts) at pH 7.0 to 8.3, and the temperature is typically at least about 30ºC. Stringent conditions can also be achieved with the addition of destabilizing agents such as formamide. In general, a signal to noise ratio of 2x (or higher) than that observed for an unrelated probe in the particular hybridization assay indicates detection of a specific hybridization. Nucleotide sequences that do not hybridize to each other under stringent conditions are still substantially identical if the proteins that they encode are substantially identical. This can occur, for example, when a copy of a nucleotide sequence is created using the maximum codon degeneracy permitted by the genetic code. A polynucleotide and/or recombinant nucleic acid construct of this invention (e.g., expression cassettes and/or vectors) may be codon optimized for expression. In some embodiments, the polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes, and/or vectors of the editing systems of the invention (e.g., comprising/encoding a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., DNA binding domain) from a polynucleotide-guided endonuclease, a zinc finger nuclease, a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN), an Argonaute protein, and/or a CRISPR-Cas endonuclease (e.g., CRISPR-Cas effector protein) (e.g., a Type I CRISPR-Cas effector protein, a Type II CRISPR-Cas effector protein, a Type III CRISPR-Cas effector protein, a Type IV CRISPR-Cas effector protein, a Type V CRISPR-Cas effector protein or a Type VI CRISPR- Cas effector protein)), a nuclease (e.g., an endonuclease (e.g., Fok1), a polynucleotide-guided endonuclease, a CRISPR-Cas endonuclease (e.g., CRISPR-Cas effector protein), a zinc finger nuclease, and/or a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN)), deaminase proteins/domains (e.g., adenine deaminase, cytosine deaminase), a polynucleotide encoding a reverse transcriptase protein or domain, a polynucleotide encoding a 5'-3' exonuclease polypeptide, and/or affinity polypeptides, peptide tags, etc.) may be codon optimized for expression in a plant. In some embodiments, the codon optimized nucleic acids, polynucleotides, expression cassettes, and/or vectors of the invention have about 70% to about 99.9% (e.g., 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%.99.9% or 100%) identity or more to the reference nucleic acids, polynucleotides, expression cassettes, and/or vectors that have not been codon optimized. In any of the embodiments described herein, a polynucleotide or nucleic acid construct of the invention may be operatively associated with a variety of promoters and/or other regulatory elements for expression in a plant and/or a cell of a plant. Thus, in some embodiments, a polynucleotide or nucleic acid construct of this invention may further comprise one or more promoters, introns, enhancers, and/or terminators operably linked to one or more nucleotide sequences. In some embodiments, a promoter may be operably associated with an intron (e.g., Ubi1 promoter and intron). In some embodiments, a promoter associated with an intron maybe referred to as a "promoter region" (e.g., Ubi1 promoter and intron). By "operably linked" or "operably associated" as used herein in reference to polynucleotides, it is meant that the indicated elements are functionally related to each other and are also generally physically related. Thus, the term "operably linked" or "operably associated" as used herein, refers to nucleotide sequences on a single nucleic acid molecule that are functionally associated. Thus, a first nucleotide sequence that is operably linked to a second nucleotide sequence means a situation when the first nucleotide sequence is placed in a functional relationship with the second nucleotide sequence. For instance, a promoter is operably associated with a nucleotide sequence if the promoter effects the transcription or expression of said nucleotide sequence. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the control sequences (e.g., promoter) need not be contiguous with the nucleotide sequence to which it is operably associated, as long as the control sequences function to direct the expression thereof. Thus, for example, intervening untranslated, yet transcribed, nucleic acid sequences can be present between a promoter and the nucleotide sequence, and the promoter can still be considered "operably linked" to the nucleotide sequence. As used herein, the term "linked," in reference to polypeptides, refers to the attachment of one polypeptide to another. A polypeptide may be linked to another polypeptide (at the N- terminus or the C-terminus) directly (e.g., via a peptide bond) or through a linker. The term "linker" is art-recognized and refers to a chemical group, or a molecule linking two molecules or moieties, e.g., two domains of a fusion protein, such as, for example, a nucleic acid binding polypeptide or domain and peptide tag and/or a reverse transcriptase and an affinity polypeptide that binds to the peptide tag; or a DNA endonuclease polypeptide or domain and peptide tag and/or a reverse transcriptase and an affinity polypeptide that binds to the peptide tag. A linker may be comprised of a single linking molecule or may comprise more than one linking molecule. In some embodiments, the linker can be an organic molecule, group, polymer, or chemical moiety such as a bivalent organic moiety. In some embodiments, the linker may be an amino acid or it may be a peptide. In some embodiments, the linker is a peptide. In some embodiments, a peptide linker useful with this invention may be about 2 to about 100 or more amino acids in length, for example, about 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 or more amino acids in length (e.g., about 2 to about 40, about 2 to about 50, about 2 to about 60, about 4 to about 40, about 4 to about 50, about 4 to about 60, about 5 to about 40, about 5 to about 50, about 5 to about 60, about 9 to about 40, about 9 to about 50, about 9 to about 60, about 10 to about 40, about 10 to about 50, about 10 to about 60, or about 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 amino acids to about 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 or more amino acids in length (e.g., about 105, 110, 115, 120, 130, 140150 or more amino acids in length). In some embodiments, a peptide linker may be a GS linker. As used herein, the term "linked," or "fused" in reference to polynucleotides, refers to the attachment of one polynucleotide to another. In some embodiments, two or more polynucleotide molecules may be linked by a linker that can be an organic molecule, group, polymer, or chemical moiety such as a bivalent organic moiety. A polynucleotide may be linked or fused to another polynucleotide (at the 5' end or the 3' end) via a covalent or non-covenant linkage or binding, including e.g., Watson-Crick base-pairing, or through one or more linking nucleotides. In some embodiments, a polynucleotide motif of a certain structure may be inserted within another polynucleotide sequence (e.g., extension of the hairpin structure in the guide RNA). In some embodiments, the linking nucleotides may be naturally occurring nucleotides. In some embodiments, the linking nucleotides may be non-naturally occurring nucleotides. A "promoter" is a nucleotide sequence that controls or regulates the transcription of a nucleotide sequence (e.g., a coding sequence) that is operably associated with the promoter. The coding sequence controlled or regulated by a promoter may encode a polypeptide and/or a functional RNA. Typically, a "promoter" refers to a nucleotide sequence that contains a binding site for RNA polymerase II and directs the initiation of transcription. In general, promoters are found 5', or upstream, relative to the start of the coding region of the corresponding coding sequence. A promoter may comprise other elements that act as regulators of gene expression; e.g., a promoter region. These include a TATA box consensus sequence, and often a CAAT box consensus sequence (Breathnach and Chambon, (1981) Annu. Rev. Biochem.50:349). In plants, the CAAT box may be substituted by the AGGA box (Messing et al., (1983) in Genetic Engineering of Plants, T. Kosuge, C. Meredith and A. Hollaender (eds.), Plenum Press, pp.211- 227). Promoters useful with this invention can include, for example, constitutive, inducible, temporally regulated, developmentally regulated, chemically regulated, tissue-preferred and/or tissue-specific promoters for use in the preparation of recombinant nucleic acid molecules, e.g., "synthetic nucleic acid constructs" or "protein-RNA complex." These various types of promoters are known in the art. The choice of promoter may vary depending on the temporal and spatial requirements for expression, and also may vary based on the host cell to be transformed. Promoters for many different organisms are well known in the art. Based on the extensive knowledge present in the art, the appropriate promoter can be selected for the particular host organism of interest. Thus, for example, much is known about promoters upstream of highly constitutively expressed genes in model organisms and such knowledge can be readily accessed and implemented in other systems as appropriate. In some embodiments, a promoter functional in a plant may be used with the constructs of this invention. Non-limiting examples of a promoter useful for driving expression in a plant include the promoter of the RubisCo small subunit gene 1 (PrbcS1), the promoter of the actin gene (Pactin), the promoter of the nitrate reductase gene (Pnr) and the promoter of duplicated carbonic anhydrase gene 1 (Pdca1) (See, Walker et al. Plant Cell Rep.23:727-735 (2005); Li et al. Gene 403:132-142 (2007); Li et al. Mol Biol. Rep.37:1143-1154 (2010)). PrbcS1 and Pactin are constitutive promoters and Pnr and Pdca1 are inducible promoters. Pnr is induced by nitrate and repressed by ammonium (Li et al. Gene 403:132-142 (2007)) and Pdca1 is induced by salt (Li et al. Mol Biol. Rep.37:1143-1154 (2010)). In some embodiments, a promoter useful with this invention is RNA polymerase II (Pol II) promoter. In some embodiments, a U6 promoter or a 7SL promoter from Zea mays may be useful with constructs of this invention. In some embodiments, the U6c promoter and/or 7SL promoter from Zea mays may be useful for driving expression of a guide nucleic acid. In some embodiments, a U6c promoter, U6i promoter and/or 7SL promoter from Glycine max may be useful with constructs of this invention. In some embodiments, the U6c promoter, U6i promoter and/or 7SL promoter from Glycine max may be useful for driving expression of a guide nucleic acid. Examples of constitutive promoters useful for plants include, but are not limited to, cestrum virus promoter (cmp) (U.S. Patent No.7,166,770), the rice actin 1 promoter (Wang et al. (1992) Mol. Cell. Biol.12:3399-3406; as well as US Patent No.5,641,876), CaMV 35S promoter (Odell et al. (1985) Nature 313:810-812), CaMV 19S promoter (Lawton et al. (1987) Plant Mol. Biol.9:315-324), nos promoter (Ebert et al. (1987) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 84:5745-5749), Adh promoter (Walker et al. (1987) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:6624-6629), sucrose synthase promoter (Yang & Russell (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:4144-4148), and the ubiquitin promoter. The constitutive promoter derived from ubiquitin accumulates in many cell types. Ubiquitin promoters have been cloned from several plant species for use in transgenic plants, for example, sunflower (Binet et al., 1991. Plant Science 79: 87-94), maize (Christensen et al., 1989. Plant Molec. Biol.12: 619-632), and arabidopsis (Norris et al.1993. Plant Molec. Biol.21:895-906). The maize ubiquitin promoter (UbiP) has been developed in transgenic monocot systems and its sequence and vectors constructed for monocot transformation are disclosed in the patent publication EP 0342926. The ubiquitin promoter is suitable for the expression of the nucleotide sequences of the invention in transgenic plants, especially monocotyledons. Further, the promoter expression cassettes described by McElroy et al. (Mol. Gen. Genet.231: 150-160 (1991)) can be easily modified for the expression of the nucleotide sequences of the invention and are particularly suitable for use in monocotyledonous hosts. In some embodiments, tissue specific/tissue preferred promoters can be used for expression of a heterologous polynucleotide in a plant cell. Tissue specific or preferred expression patterns include, but are not limited to, green tissue specific or preferred, root specific or preferred, stem specific or preferred, flower specific or preferred or pollen specific or preferred. Promoters suitable for expression in green tissue include many that regulate genes involved in photosynthesis and many of these have been cloned from both monocotyledons and dicotyledons. In one embodiment, a promoter useful with the invention is the maize PEPC promoter from the phosphoenol carboxylase gene (Hudspeth & Grula, Plant Molec. Biol. 12:579-589 (1989)). Non-limiting examples of tissue-specific promoters include those associated with genes encoding the seed storage proteins (such as β-conglycinin, cruciferin, napin and phaseolin), zein or oil body proteins (such as oleosin), or proteins involved in fatty acid biosynthesis (including acyl carrier protein, stearoyl-ACP desaturase and fatty acid desaturases (fad 2-1)), and other nucleic acids expressed during embryo development (such as Bce4, see, e.g., Kridl et al. (1991) Seed Sci. Res.1:209-219; as well as EP Patent No.255378). Tissue-specific or tissue-preferential promoters useful for the expression of the nucleotide sequences of the invention in plants, particularly maize, include but are not limited to those that direct expression in root, pith, leaf or pollen. Such promoters are disclosed, for example, in WO 93/07278, herein incorporated by reference in its entirety. Other non-limiting examples of tissue specific or tissue preferred promoters useful with the invention the cotton rubisco promoter disclosed in US Patent 6,040,504; the rice sucrose synthase promoter disclosed in US Patent 5,604,121; the root specific promoter described by de Framond (FEBS 290:103-106 (1991); EP 0452269 to Ciba- Geigy); the stem specific promoter described in U.S. Patent 5,625,136 (to Ciba-Geigy) and which drives expression of the maize trpA gene; the cestrum yellow leaf curling virus promoter disclosed in WO 01/73087; and pollen specific or preferred promoters including, but not limited to, ProOsLPS10 and ProOsLPS11 from rice (Nguyen et al. Plant Biotechnol. Reports 9(5):297-306 (2015)), ZmSTK2_USP from maize (Wang et al. Genome 60(6):485-495 (2017)), LAT52 and LAT59 from tomato (Twell et al. Development 109(3):705- 713 (1990)), Zm13 (U.S. Patent No.10,421,972), PLA2-δ promoter from arabidopsis (U.S. Patent No.7,141,424), and/or the ZmC5 promoter from maize (International PCT Publication No. WO1999/042587. Additional examples of plant tissue-specific/tissue preferred promoters include, but are not limited to, the root hair–specific cis-elements (RHEs) (Kim et al. The Plant Cell 18:2958- 2970 (2006)), the root-specific promoters RCc3 (Jeong et al. Plant Physiol.153:185-197 (2010)) and RB7 (U.S. Patent No.5459252), the lectin promoter (Lindstrom et al. (1990) Der. Genet. 11:160-167; and Vodkin (1983) Prog. Clin. Biol. Res.138:87-98), corn alcohol dehydrogenase 1 promoter (Dennis et al. (1984) Nucleic Acids Res.12:3983-4000), S-adenosyl-L-methionine synthetase (SAMS) (Vander Mijnsbrugge et al. (1996) Plant and Cell Physiology, 37(8):1108- 1115), corn light harvesting complex promoter (Bansal et al. (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89:3654-3658), corn heat shock protein promoter (O'Dell et al. (1985) EMBO J.5:451-458; and Rochester et al. (1986) EMBO J.5:451-458), pea small subunit RuBP carboxylase promoter (Cashmore, "Nuclear genes encoding the small subunit of ribulose-l,5-bisphosphate carboxylase" pp.29-39 In: Genetic Engineering of Plants (Hollaender ed., Plenum Press 1983; and Poulsen et al. (1986) Mol. Gen. Genet.205:193-200), Ti plasmid mannopine synthase promoter (Langridge et al. (1989) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:3219-3223), Ti plasmid nopaline synthase promoter (Langridge et al. (1989), supra), petunia chalcone isomerase promoter (van Tunen et al. (1988) EMBO J.7:1257-1263), bean glycine rich protein 1 promoter (Keller et al. (1989) Genes Dev.3:1639-1646), truncated CaMV 35S promoter (O'Dell et al. (1985) Nature 313:810-812), potato patatin promoter (Wenzler et al. (1989) Plant Mol. Biol. 13:347-354), root cell promoter (Yamamoto et al. Acids Res.18:7449), maize zein promoter (Kriz et al. (1987) Mol. Gen. Genet.207:90-98; Langridge et al. (1983) Cell 34:1015-1022; Reina et al. (1990) Nucleic Acids Res.18:6425; Reina et al. (1990) Nucleic Acids Res.18:7449; and Wandelt et al. (1989) Nucleic Acids Res.17:2354), globulin-1 promoter (Belanger et al. (1991) Genetics 129:863-872), α-tubulin cab promoter (Sullivan et al. (1989) Mol. Gen. Genet.215:431-440), PEPCase promoter (Hudspeth & Grula (1989) Plant Mol. Biol. 12:579-589), R gene complex-associated promoters (Chandler et al. (1989) Plant Cell 1:1175- 1183), and chalcone synthase promoters (Franken et al. (1991) EMBO J.10:2605-2612). Useful for seed-specific expression is the pea vicilin promoter (Czako et al. (1992) Mol. Gen. Genet.235:33-40; as well as the seed-specific promoters disclosed in U.S. Patent No.5,625,136. Useful promoters for expression in mature leaves are those that are switched at the onset of senescence, such as the SAG promoter from Arabidopsis (Gan et al. (1995) Science 270:1986- 1988). In addition, promoters functional in chloroplasts can be used. Non-limiting examples of such promoters include the bacteriophage T3 gene 95' UTR and other promoters disclosed in U.S. Patent No.7,579,516. Other promoters useful with the invention include but are not limited to the S-E9 small subunit RuBP carboxylase promoter and the Kunitz trypsin inhibitor gene promoter (Kti3). Additional regulatory elements useful with this invention include, but are not limited to, introns, enhancers, termination sequences and/or 5' and 3' untranslated regions. An intron useful with this invention can be an intron identified in and isolated from a plant and then inserted into an expression cassette to be used in transformation of a plant. As would be understood by those of skill in the art, introns can comprise the sequences required for self-excision and are incorporated into nucleic acid constructs/expression cassettes in frame. An intron can be used either as a spacer to separate multiple protein-coding sequences in one nucleic acid construct, or an intron can be used inside one protein-coding sequence to, for example, stabilize the mRNA. If they are used within a protein-coding sequence, they are inserted "in-frame" with the excision sites included. Introns may also be associated with promoters to improve or modify expression. As an example, a promoter/intron combination useful with this invention includes but is not limited to that of the maize Ubi1 promoter and intron (see, e.g., SEQ ID NO:21 and SEQ ID NO:22). Non-limiting examples of introns useful with the present invention include introns from the ADHI gene (e.g., Adh1-S introns 1, 2 and 6), the ubiquitin gene (Ubi1), the RuBisCO small subunit (rbcS) gene, the RuBisCO large subunit (rbcL) gene, the actin gene (e.g., actin-1 intron), the pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase gene (pdk), the nitrate reductase gene (nr), the duplicated carbonic anhydrase gene 1 (Tdca1), the psbA gene, the atpA gene, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, a polynucleotide and/or a nucleic acid construct of the invention can be an "expression cassette" or can be comprised within an expression cassette. As used herein, "expression cassette" means a recombinant nucleic acid molecule comprising, for example, a one or more polynucleotides of the invention (e.g., a polynucleotide encoding a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domain, a polynucleotide encoding a deaminase protein or domain, a polynucleotide encoding a reverse transcriptase protein or domain, a polynucleotide encoding a 5'-3' exonuclease polypeptide or domain, a guide nucleic acid and/or reverse transcriptase (RT) template), wherein polynucleotide(s) is/are operably associated with one or more control sequences (e.g., a promoter, terminator and the like). Thus, in some embodiments, one or more expression cassettes may be provided, which are designed to express, for example, a nucleic acid construct of the invention (e.g., a polynucleotide encoding a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domain, a polynucleotide encoding a nuclease polypeptide/domain, a polynucleotide encoding a deaminase protein/domain, a polynucleotide encoding a reverse transcriptase protein/domain, a polynucleotide encoding a 5'-3' exonuclease polypeptide/domain, a polynucleotide encoding a peptide tag, and/or a polynucleotide encoding an affinity polypeptide, and the like, or comprising a guide nucleic acid, an extended guide nucleic acid, and/or RT template, and the like). When an expression cassette of the present invention comprises more than one polynucleotide, the polynucleotides may be operably linked to a single promoter that drives expression of all of the polynucleotides or the polynucleotides may be operably linked to one or more separate promoters (e.g., three polynucleotides may be driven by one, two or three promoters in any combination). When two or more separate promoters are used, the promoters may be the same promoter, or they may be different promoters. Thus, a polynucleotide encoding a sequence specific nucleic acid binding domain, a polynucleotide encoding a nuclease protein/domain, a polynucleotide encoding a CRISPR-Cas effector protein/domain, a polynucleotide encoding an deaminase protein/domain, a polynucleotide encoding a reverse transcriptase polypeptide/domain (e.g., RNA-dependent DNA polymerase), and/or a polynucleotide encoding a 5'-3' exonuclease polypeptide/domain, a guide nucleic acid, an extended guide nucleic acid and/or RT template when comprised in a single expression cassette may each be operably linked to a single promoter, or separate promoters in any combination. An expression cassette comprising a nucleic acid construct of the invention may be chimeric, meaning that at least one (e.g., one or more) of its components is heterologous with respect to at least one of its other components (e.g., a promoter from the host organism operably linked to a polynucleotide of interest to be expressed in the host organism, wherein the polynucleotide of interest is from a different organism than the host or is not normally found in association with that promoter). An expression cassette may also be one that is naturally occurring but has been obtained in a recombinant form useful for heterologous expression. An expression cassette can optionally include a transcriptional and/or translational termination region (i.e., termination region) and/or an enhancer region that is functional in the selected host cell. A variety of transcriptional terminators and enhancers are known in the art and are available for use in expression cassettes. Transcriptional terminators are responsible for the termination of transcription and correct mRNA polyadenylation. A termination region and/or the enhancer region may be native to the transcriptional initiation region, may be native to, for example, a gene encoding a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein, a gene encoding a nuclease, a gene encoding a reverse transcriptase, a gene encoding a deaminase, and the like, or may be native to a host cell, or may be native to another source (e.g., foreign or heterologous to, for example, to a promoter, to a gene encoding a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein, a gene encoding a nuclease, a gene encoding a reverse transcriptase, a gene encoding a deaminase, and the like, or to the host cell, or any combination thereof). An expression cassette of the invention also can include a polynucleotide encoding a selectable marker, which can be used to select a transformed host cell. As used herein, "selectable marker" means a polynucleotide sequence that when expressed imparts a distinct phenotype to the host cell expressing the marker and thus allows such transformed cells to be distinguished from those that do not have the marker. Such a polynucleotide sequence may encode either a selectable or screenable marker, depending on whether the marker confers a trait that can be selected for by chemical means, such as by using a selective agent (e.g., an antibiotic and the like), or on whether the marker is simply a trait that one can identify through observation or testing, such as by screening (e.g., fluorescence). Many examples of suitable selectable markers are known in the art and can be used in the expression cassettes described herein. In addition to expression cassettes, the nucleic acid molecules/constructs and polynucleotide sequences described herein can be used in connection with vectors. The term "vector" refers to a composition for transferring, delivering or introducing a nucleic acid (or nucleic acids) into a cell. A vector comprises a nucleic acid construct (e.g., expression cassette(s)) comprising the nucleotide sequence(s) to be transferred, delivered or introduced. Vectors for use in transformation of host organisms are well known in the art. Non-limiting examples of general classes of vectors include viral vectors, plasmid vectors, phage vectors, phagemid vectors, cosmid vectors, fosmid vectors, bacteriophages, artificial chromosomes, minicircles, or Agrobacterium binary vectors in double or single stranded linear or circular form which may or may not be self-transmissible or mobilizable. In some embodiments, a viral vector can include, but is not limited, to a retroviral, lentiviral, adenoviral, adeno-associated, or herpes simplex viral vector. A vector as defined herein can transform a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host either by integration into the cellular genome or exist extrachromosomally (e.g., autonomous replicating plasmid with an origin of replication). Additionally, included are shuttle vectors by which is meant a DNA vehicle capable, naturally or by design, of replication in two different host organisms, which may be selected from actinomycetes and related species, bacteria and eukaryotic (e.g., higher plant, mammalian, yeast or fungal cells). In some embodiments, the nucleic acid in the vector is under the control of, and operably linked to, an appropriate promoter or other regulatory elements for transcription in a host cell. The vector may be a bi-functional expression vector which functions in multiple hosts. In the case of genomic DNA, this may contain its own promoter and/or other regulatory elements and in the case of cDNA this may be under the control of an appropriate promoter and/or other regulatory elements for expression in the host cell. Accordingly, a nucleic acid or polynucleotide of this invention and/or expression cassettes comprising the same may be comprised in vectors as described herein and as known in the art. As used herein, "contact," "contacting," "contacted," and grammatical variations thereof, refer to placing the components of a desired reaction together under conditions suitable for carrying out the desired reaction (e.g., transformation, transcriptional control, genome editing, nicking, and/or cleavage). As an example, a target nucleic acid may be contacted with a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein (e.g., polynucleotide-guided endonuclease, a CRISPR-Cas endonuclease (e.g., CRISPR-Cas effector protein), a zinc finger nuclease, a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) and/or an Argonaute protein)) and a deaminase or a nucleic acid construct encoding the same, under conditions whereby the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein, the reverse transcriptase and/or the deaminase are expressed and the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein binds to the target nucleic acid, and the reverse transcriptase and/or deaminase may be fused to either the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein or recruited to the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein (via, for example, a peptide tag fused to the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein and an affinity tag fused to the reverse transcriptase and/or deaminase) and thus, the deaminase and/or reverse transcriptase is positioned in the vicinity of the target nucleic acid, thereby modifying the target nucleic acid. Other methods for recruiting reverse transcriptase and/or deaminase may be used that take advantage of other protein-protein interactions, and also RNA- protein interactions and chemical interactions may be used for protein-protein and protein- nucleic acid recruitment. As used herein, "modifying" or "modification" in reference to a target nucleic acid includes editing (e.g., mutating), covalent modification, exchanging/substituting nucleic acids/nucleotide bases, deleting, cleaving, nicking, and/or altering transcriptional control of a target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, a modification may include one or more single base changes (SNPs) of any type. "Introducing," "introduce," "introduced" (and grammatical variations thereof) in the context of a polynucleotide of interest means presenting a nucleotide sequence of interest (e.g., polynucleotide, RT template, a nucleic acid construct, and/or a guide nucleic acid) to a plant, plant part thereof, or cell thereof, in such a manner that the nucleotide sequence gains access to the interior of a cell. The terms "transformation" or transfection" may be used interchangeably and as used herein refer to the introduction of a heterologous nucleic acid into a cell. Transformation of a cell may be stable or transient. Thus, in some embodiments, a host cell or host organism (e.g., a plant) may be stably transformed with a polynucleotide/nucleic acid molecule of the invention. In some embodiments, a host cell or host organism may be transiently transformed with a polynucleotide/nucleic acid molecule of the invention. "Transient transformation" in the context of a polynucleotide means that a polynucleotide is introduced into the cell and does not integrate into the genome of the cell. By "stably introducing" or "stably introduced" in the context of a polynucleotide introduced into a cell is intended that the introduced polynucleotide is stably incorporated into the genome of the cell, and thus the cell is stably transformed with the polynucleotide. "Stable transformation" or "stably transformed" as used herein means that a nucleic acid molecule is introduced into a cell and integrates into the genome of the cell. As such, the integrated nucleic acid molecule is capable of being inherited by the progeny thereof, more particularly, by the progeny of multiple successive generations. "Genome" as used herein includes the nuclear and the plastid genome, and therefore includes integration of the nucleic acid into, for example, the chloroplast or mitochondrial genome. Stable transformation as used herein can also refer to a transgene that is maintained extrachromasomally, for example, as a minichromosome or a plasmid. Transient transformation may be detected by, for example, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or Western blot, which can detect the presence of a peptide or polypeptide encoded by one or more transgene introduced into an organism. Stable transformation of a cell can be detected by, for example, a Southern blot hybridization assay of genomic DNA of the cell with nucleic acid sequences which specifically hybridize with a nucleotide sequence of a transgene introduced into an organism (e.g., a plant). Stable transformation of a cell can be detected by, for example, a Northern blot hybridization assay of RNA of the cell with nucleic acid sequences which specifically hybridize with a nucleotide sequence of a transgene introduced into a host organism. Stable transformation of a cell can also be detected by, e.g., a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or other amplification reactions as are well known in the art, employing specific primer sequences that hybridize with target sequence(s) of a transgene, resulting in amplification of the transgene sequence, which can be detected according to standard methods. Transformation can also be detected by direct sequencing and/or hybridization protocols well known in the art. Accordingly, in some embodiments, nucleotide sequences, polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, and/or expression cassettes of the invention may be expressed transiently and/or they can be stably incorporated into the genome of the host organism. Thus, in some embodiments, a nucleic acid construct of the invention (e.g., one or more expression cassettes comprising polynucleotides for editing as described herein) may be transiently introduced into a cell with a guide nucleic acid and as such, no DNA is maintained in the cell. A nucleic acid construct of the invention may be introduced into a plant cell by any method known to those of skill in the art. Non-limiting examples of transformation methods include transformation via bacterial-mediated nucleic acid delivery (e.g., via Agrobacteria), viral-mediated nucleic acid delivery, silicon carbide or nucleic acid whisker-mediated nucleic acid delivery, liposome mediated nucleic acid delivery, microinjection, microparticle bombardment, calcium-phosphate-mediated transformation, cyclodextrin-mediated transformation, electroporation, nanoparticle-mediated transformation, sonication, infiltration, PEG-mediated nucleic acid uptake, as well as any other electrical, chemical, physical (mechanical) and/or biological mechanism that results in the introduction of nucleic acid into the plant cell, including any combination thereof. Procedures for transforming both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms are well known and routine in the art and are described throughout the literature (See, for example, Jiang et al.2013. Nat. Biotechnol.31:233-239; Ran et al. Nature Protocols 8:2281–2308 (2013)). General guides to various plant transformation methods known in the art include Miki et al. ("Procedures for Introducing Foreign DNA into Plants" in Methods in Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Glick, B. R. and Thompson, J. E., Eds. (CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, 1993), pages 67-88) and Rakowoczy-Trojanowska (Cell. Mol. Biol. Lett.7:849-858 (2002)). In some embodiments of the invention, transformation of a cell may comprise nuclear transformation. In other embodiments, transformation of a cell may comprise plastid transformation (e.g., chloroplast transformation). In still further embodiments, nucleic acids of the invention may be introduced into a cell via conventional breeding techniques. In some embodiments, one or more of the polynucleotides, expression cassettes and/or vectors may be introduced into a plant cell via Agrobacterium transformation. A polynucleotide therefore can be introduced into a plant, plant part, plant cell in any number of ways that are well known in the art. The methods of the invention do not depend on a particular method for introducing one or more nucleotide sequences into a plant, only that they gain access to the interior the cell. Where more than polynucleotide is to be introduced, they can be assembled as part of a single nucleic acid construct, or as separate nucleic acid constructs, and can be located on the same or different nucleic acid constructs. Accordingly, the polynucleotide can be introduced into the cell of interest in a single transformation event, or in separate transformation events, or alternatively, a polynucleotide can be incorporated into a plant as part of a breeding protocol. The present invention is directed to modification of GLABRA2 (GL2) genes in Brassica plants, in particular, mustard plants (e.g., Brassica juncea), and parts thereof, to produce Brassica plants having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control plant (e.g., an isogenic plant (e.g., wild type unedited plant or a null segregant)). Leaf trichomes (often described as leaf hairs) are thought to be involved in various functions, including protecting plants against insect herbivores, pathogenic microorganisms, and UV light, reducing transpiration, and increasing tolerance to freezing. However, the texture of leaf trichomes when present on edible plant parts, for example, on leafy greens, is considered undesirable. Few or no trichomes or trichomes reduced in size are preferred. Brassica varieties are near isogenic. So, to remove trichomes from a Brassica variety it is necessary to cross a first Brassica line with a second Brassica line having an allele for loss of trichomes. However, this can result in the loss of desirable traits in the first Brassica line. The present invention is directed at reducing or eliminating trichomes in Brassica plants without loss of desirable phenotypic traits. Accordingly, methods and compositions are provided herein for the modification of GLABRA2 (GL2) genes in Brassica plants to produce Brassica plants and parts thereof having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control plant (e.g., an isogenic plant (e.g., wild type unedited plant or a null segregant)). An example editing strategy useful for this invention can include generating a mutation in one or more than one GL2 gene in a Brassica plant, e.g., a Brassica plant may comprise 1, 2, 3, or 4 GL2 gene(s) each comprising at least one modification as described herein. In some embodiments, a GL2 gene is present in both the A subgenome and in the B subgenome of a Brassica plant, wherein the GL2 gene in both the A subgenome and the B subgenome is modified as described herein. In some embodiments, the Brassica plant is a mustard plant, optionally, Brassica juncea. Example subgenome A GL2 genes can include, but are not limited to, any one of SEQ ID NOs:72, 106, 112, 118, 124, and 130. Example subgenome B GL2 genes can include, but are not limited, to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 109, 115, 121, 127, and 133. In some embodiments, one or more than one (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 or more) mutation may be generated in a GL2 gene (e.g., in one or more than one GL2 gene, e.g., in a subgenome A GL2 gene and/or in a subgenome B GL2 gene) of a Brassica plant (e.g., a mustard plant, a mustard green plant, a B. juncea variety). Mutations that may be useful for producing Brassica plants having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes, can include, but are not limited to, substitutions, deletions, and/or insertions. In some embodiments, a mutation generated by the editing technology can be a point mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation in one or more than one GL2 gene as described herein results in a knockout or a knockdown of the GL2 gene, optionally wherein the knockout or a knockdown of the GL2 gene may be a null mutation or a weak loss of function mutation. A knockout or a knockdown mutation in a GL2 gene may result in a reduction of the encoded GL2 polypeptide or may result in a non-functional GL2 polypeptide. In some embodiments, a knockout mutation (null mutation) or a knockdown mutation (weak loss of function mutation) in one or more than one GL2 in a Brassica plant or part thereof as described herein results in an absence of or undetectable levels of GL2 polypeptide in the Brassica plant and/or part thereof comprising the mutation in one or more than one GL2 gene. In some embodiments, a mutation generated as described herein can be a dominant negative mutation and/or a recessive mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. In some embodiments, a mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. In some embodiments, the invention provides a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one mutation in at least one endogenous GL2 gene (e.g., one or more than one GL2 gene) encoding a GL2 polypeptide. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene of the Brassica plant may be a knockdown or a knockout of the GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation in the Brassica plant may be a null mutation, weak loss of function mutation, recessive mutation and/or a dominant negative mutation. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, the Brassica plant or part thereof is a mustard plant or part thereof, optionally a Brassica juncea plant or part thereof. As used herein, a “non-natural mutation” refers to a mutation that is generated though human intervention and differs from mutations found in the same gene that have occurred in nature (e.g., occurred naturally)). In some embodiments, a Brassica plant cell is provided, the Brassica plant cell comprising an editing system, the editing system comprising: (a) a CRISPR-Cas effector protein; and (b) a guide nucleic acid (e.g., gRNA, gDNA, crRNA, crDNA, sgRNA, sgDNA) comprising a spacer sequence with complementarity to an endogenous target gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide in the Brassica plant cell. The editing system may be used to generate a mutation in the endogenous target gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide. In some embodiments, the endogenous target gene may be one or more than one endogenous GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the editing system may generate a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, the endogenous target gene comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134 , or comprises a region having at least 80% sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. In some embodiments, a guide nucleic acid of an editing system may comprise the nucleotide sequence (a spacer sequence, e.g., one or more spacer sequences) of SEQ ID NO:103 (PWsp1800), SEQ ID NO:104 (PWsp1801), or SEQ ID NO:105 (PWsp1802). A mutation in a GL2 gene of a Brassica plant or plant part thereof, such as a Brassica plant cell, useful for this invention may be any type of mutation, including a base substitution, a base deletion, and/or a base insertion. In some embodiments, a mutation may comprise a base substitution to an A, a T, a G, or a C. In some embodiments, a mutation may be a deletion (optionally, an out-of-frame deletion) (e.g., a deletion of at least one base pair (e.g., 1 base pair to about 100 base pairs; e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or 100 consecutive base pairs or any range or value therein,; e.g., 1 to about 50 consecutive base pairs, 1 to about 30 consecutive base pairs, 1 to about 15 consecutive base pairs) or an insertion of at least one base pair (e.g., 1 base pair to about 15 base pairs; e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 consecutive base pairs), optionally wherein the deletion is an out- of-frame deletion (e.g., 1 nucleotide, or 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 or more consecutive nucleotides). In some embodiments, a mutation may be an insertion of at least one base pair (e.g., 1 base pair to about 100 consecutive base pairs; e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or 100 consecutive base pairs or any range or value therein. In some embodiments, an insertion of 1 to about 100 base pairs is an out-of-frame insertion (e.g., 1 nucleotide, or 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 or more consecutive nucleotides). In some embodiments, a mutation may be a non-natural mutation. A mutation in a GL2 gene may be located in the 5' region of the GL2 gene, optionally in Exon 2 of the endogenous GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the mutation may be an out-of- frame deletion or an out-of-frame insertion. In some embodiments, the out-of-frame deletion or out-of-frame insertion results in a disruption of the GL2 gene, thereby disrupting the production of the encoded GL2 polypeptide. In some embodiments, a mutation may be in the 5' region of the endogenous GL2 gene, optionally in a region of the endogenous GL2 gene from about nucleotide 2000, 2050, 2100, 2150, 2200, 2250 to about nucleotide 2300, 2350, 2400, 2450, 2460, or 2465 with reference to nucleotide position numbering of any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 72, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118, 121, 124, 127, 130, or 133. In some embodiments, a mutation may be in the 5' region of an endogenous GL2 gene, optionally within or adjacent to the second exon of the GL2 gene. As used herein, “adjacent to the second exon” means within 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 or 75 base pairs of the 5' or 3' end of the second exon of the GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the mutation may be a knockdown or knockout mutation. In some embodiments, the mutation may be a null mutation, weak loss of function mutation, recessive mutation, and/or a dominant negative mutation. In some embodiments, the mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. In some embodiments, the mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. The types of editing tools that may be used to generate these and other mutations GL2 genes include any base editors or cutters, which are guided to a target site using spacers having at least 80% complementarity to a portion or a region of a GL2 gene (e.g., one or more than one GL2 gene) as described herein. In some embodiments, a mutation of a GL2 gene is within a portion or region of the endogenous GL2 gene, the portion or region having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. An endogenous GL2 gene useful with this invention (e.g., an endogenous target gene) encodes GL2 polypeptide. In some embodiments, a GL2 gene useful with this invention may comprise a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity (e.g., 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, or 100%) to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134 ; and/or comprises a region having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102, and/or may encode a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135. In some embodiments, a Brassica plant useful with this invention may comprise more than one genome (e.g., one or more subgenomes, e.g., subgenome A, subgenome B), each of which may comprise an endogenous GL2 gene. For example, a Brassica plant (e.g., a B. juncea variety) may compromise a subgenome A and a subgenome B, wherein each of subgenome A and subgenome B comprises a GL2 gene (e.g., Brassica juncea). Example subgenome A GL2 genes can include, but are not limited to, any one of SEQ ID NOs:72, 106, 112, 118, 124, and 130. Example subgenome B GL2 genes can include, but are not limited, to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 109, 115, 121, 127, and 133. In some embodiments, one or more than one (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 or more) mutation may be generated in a GL2 gene (e.g., in one or more than one GL2 gene, e.g., in a subgenome A GL2 gene and/or in a subgenome B GL2 gene) of a Brassica plant (e.g., a mustard plant, a mustard green plant, a B. juncea variety). In some embodiments, a Brassica plant comprising at least one (e.g., one or more, e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, or more) mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene (in at least one endogenous GL2 gene, e.g., in one or more endogenous GL2 genes, e.g., 1, 2, 3, or 4) comprises a phenotype of modified trichomes, reduced number of trichomes (e.g., reduced trichome density), or no trichomes (e.g., devoid of trichomes) as compared to a Brassica plant devoid of the at least one mutation (e.g., an isogenic plant (e.g., wild type unedited plant or a null segregant)). In some embodiments, a Brassica plant may be regenerated from a Brassica plant part and/or Brassica plant cell of the invention comprising a mutation in one or more than one endogenous GL2 gene(s) as described herein, wherein the regenerated Brassica plant comprises a phenotype of modified trichomes, reduced number of trichomes (e.g., reduced trichome density), or no trichomes (e.g., devoid of trichomes) as compared to a Brassica plant devoid of the at least one mutation (e.g., an isogenic plant (e.g., wild type unedited plant or a null segregant)). In some embodiments, a Brassica plant part and/or Brassica plant cell of the invention is not regenerated into a plant. In some embodiments, a Brassica plant cell is provided, the Brassica plant cell comprising at least one mutation within one or more endogenous GL2 genes, wherein the at least one mutation is a base substitution, base insertion, or base deletion that is introduced using an editing system that comprises a nucleic acid binding domain that binds to a target site in the one or more endogenous GL2 genes, optionally wherein the mutation may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, the target site for a mutation of the invention may be located in within a region of the endogenous GL2 gene, the region having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. In some embodiments, the target site may be located in the 5' region of the GL2 gene, optionally in Exon 2 of the endogenous GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the target site may be located in a region of the endogenous GL2 gene from nucleotide 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, or 1000 to about nucleotide 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2400, 2500 (or any range or value therein) with reference to nucleotide position numbering of SEQ ID NOs:69, 72, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118, 121, 124, 127, 130, or 133. In some embodiments the target site may be located in a region of the endogenous GL2 that is within or adjacent to Exon 2 of the GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the substitution, insertion, or deletion results in, for example, a disruption of the production of the GL2 polypeptide encoded by GL2 gene, e.g., insertion of a premature stop codon. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation is a point mutation, optionally resulting in a disruption of the production of the GL2 polypeptide encoded by the endogenous GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation within the endogenous GL2 gene may be an insertion and/or a deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally wherein the at least one mutation is an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally a truncated protein, optionally no detectable protein. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation may be made following cleavage by an editing system that comprises a nuclease and a nucleic acid binding domain that binds to a target site within a sequence having least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%.99.9% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134, optionally located in the 5' region of the GL2 gene (e.g., in a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102), optionally wherein a premature stop codon is generated, and the at least one mutation within a GL2 gene is made following cleavage by the nuclease. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation may be a null mutation. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation may be a dominant negative mutation. In some embodiments, at least one mutation may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. In some embodiments, a mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, and 185. In some embodiments, a Brassica plant cell comprising at least one mutation within an endogenous GL2 gene may be regenerated into a Brassica plant that comprises the at least one mutation, optionally wherein the Brassica plant regenerated from the Brassica plant cell exhibits a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant devoid of the at least one mutation in the one or more than one GL2 gene (e.g., an isogenic plant (e.g., wild type unedited plant or a null segregant). In some embodiments, the Brassica plant cell is non-propagating plant cell that does not regenerate into a plant. In some embodiments, a method of producing/breeding a transgene-free edited Brassica plant is provided, the method comprising: crossing a Brassica plant of the present invention (e.g., a Brassica plant comprising one or more mutations (e.g., non-natural mutations) in one or more GL2 genes and exhibiting a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant devoid of the at least one mutation in the one or more than one GL2 gene (e.g., an isogenic plant (e.g., wild type unedited plant or a null segregant), thereby introducing the mutation into the Brassica plant that is transgene-free; and selecting a progeny Brassica plant that comprises the at least one mutation and is transgene-free, thereby producing a transgene free edited Brassica plant. Also provided herein is a method of providing a plurality of Brassica plants having modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes, the method comprising planting two or more plants of the invention (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 400, 5000, or 10,000 or more plants comprising one or more mutations (e.g., non-natural mutations) in one or more GL2 genes and having modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes in a growing area (e.g., a field (e.g., a cultivated field, an agricultural field), a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a recreational area, a lawn, and/or a roadside and the like), thereby providing a plurality of Brassica plants having modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes as compared to a plurality of control Brassica plants devoid of the mutation. In some embodiments, a method of creating a mutation in one or more endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) genes in a Brassica plant is provided, comprising: (a) targeting a gene editing system to a portion of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes that comprises a sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and (b) selecting a Brassica plant that comprises a modification located in a region of the one or more endogenous GL2 genes having at least 90% (e.g., 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. In some embodiments, the mutation/modification is a deletion or an insertion. In some embodiments, the mutation is an out-of-frame deletion or out-of-frame insertion resulting in a mutation in the 5' region of the GL2 gene resulting in a disruption of the production of the encoded GL2 polypeptide. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a method of generating variation in a GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, comprising introducing an editing system into a Brassica plant cell, wherein the editing system is targeted to a region of a GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide, and contacting the region of the GL2 gene with the editing system, thereby introducing a mutation into the GL2 gene and generating variation in the GL2 gene of the Brassica plant cell. In some embodiments, the GL2 gene may comprise a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%.99.9% or 100%) sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134 and/or encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. In some embodiments, the region of the GL2 gene that is targeted may comprise at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. In some embodiments, contacting the region of the endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant cell with the editing system produces a Brassica plant cell comprising in its genome an edited endogenous GL2 gene, the method further comprising (a) regenerating a Brassica plant from the plant cell; (b) selfing the Brassica plant to produce progeny plants (E1); (c) assaying the progeny plants of (b) for modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes; and (d) selecting the progeny plants exhibiting a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant or part thereof that is devoid of the at least one mutation. In some embodiments, the method may further comprise(e) selfing the selected progeny plants of (d) to produce progeny plants (E2); (f) assaying the progeny plants of (e) for modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes; and (g) selecting the progeny plants exhibiting a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant or part thereof that is devoid of the at least one mutation, optionally repeating (e) through (g) one or more additional times. In some embodiments, the variation that is generated may result in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. In some embodiments, the variation that is generated may result in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. In some embodiments, a method of detecting a mutant GL2 gene (a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene) in a Brassica plant is provided, the method comprising detecting in the genome of a Brassica plant an endogenous GL2 gene encoding a GL2 polypeptide, optionally wherein the mutation is located in the 5' region of the GL2 gene, the 5' region having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. In some embodiments, the mutation that is detected is an out-of-frame deletion or an out-of-frame insertion, optionally resulting in a premature stop codon and reduced (reduced by at least by about 5%; e.g., about 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 or 99% or any range or value therein) or no production of the encoded GL2 polypeptide (100% reduction of the encoded GL2 polypeptide). In some embodiments, the mutant GL2 gene that is detected comprises a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184, optionally, wherein the mutant GL2 gene encodes a polypeptide having at least 90% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. In some embodiments, a method for editing a specific site in the genome of a Brassica plant cell, the method comprising: cleaving, in a site-specific manner, a target site within an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene in the Brassica plant cell, the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134, (b) comprising a region having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102, and/or (c) encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135, thereby generating an edit in the endogenous GL2 gene of the Brassica plant cell and producing a Brassica plant cell comprising the edit in the endogenous GL2 gene. In some embodiments, the edit may result in a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, an edit may be generated in two or more endogenous GL2 genes (e.g., 1, 2, 3, or 4 GL2 genes). In some embodiments, all GL2 genes in a Brassica plant or part thereof are edited as described herein, e.g., the GL2genes in the A subgenome and B subgenome of a Brassica plant, e.g., B. juncea. In some embodiments, the edit in the endogenous GL2 gene in a Brassica plant results in a mutation including, but not limited to, a base deletion, a base substitution, or a base insertion. In some embodiments, the mutation may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, the at least one mutation may be located in the 5' region of a GL2 gene, optionally resulting in a premature stop codon. In some embodiments, the edit may result in at least one mutation that is an insertion of at least one base pair (e.g., an insertion of 1 base pair to about 100 base pairs), optionally wherein the insertion is an out-of-frame insertion. In some embodiments, the edit may result in at least one mutation that is a deletion, optionally wherein the deletion is an out-of- frame deletion, optionally wherein the deletion is about 1 to about 100 consecutive base pairs in length, e.g., 1 base pair to about 50 consecutive base pairs, 1 base pair to about 30 consecutive base pairs or 1 base pair to about 15 consecutive base pairs in length, optionally about 1 base pair or 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, or 50 consecutive base pairs, and any range or value therein. A deletion or insertion useful with this invention may be an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion, optionally wherein the out-of-frame insertion or out-of-frame deletion may result in a disruption of the production of the GL2 polypeptide encoded by the GL2 gene. In some embodiments, an edit within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes is an insertion and/or a deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally wherein the edit results in an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally a truncated protein. In some embodiments, an edit within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes results in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. In some embodiments, an edit within the one or more endogenous GL2 genes results in in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. In some embodiments, a method of editing may further comprise regenerating a Brassica plant from a Brassica plant cell comprising the edit in its endogenous GL2 gene, thereby producing a Brassica plant comprising the edit in its endogenous GL2 gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant devoid of the at least one mutation in the one or more than one GL2 gene (e.g., an isogenic plant (e.g., wild type unedited plant or a null segregant). In some embodiments, the Brassica plant cell is non-propagating plant cell that does not regenerate into a plant. In some embodiments, a method for making a Brassica plant is provided, the method comprising (a) contacting a population of Brassica plant cells comprising an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene with a nuclease linked to a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., editing system) that binds to a sequence (i) having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (ii) comprising a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75- 102; and/or (iii) encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135; (b) selecting a plant cell from the population of Brassica plant cells in which an endogenous GL2 gene has been mutated, thereby producing a Brassica plant cell comprising a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene; and (c) growing the selected Brassica plant cell into a Brassica plant. In some embodiments, a method for modifying trichomes, reducing the number of trichomes or eliminating trichomes in a Brassica plant, the method comprising (a) contacting a Brassica plant cell comprising an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene with a nuclease targeting the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the nuclease is linked to a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., editing system) that binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (i) comprises a sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (ii) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75- 102; and/or (iii) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135 to produce a Brassica plant cell comprising a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene; and (b) growing the Brassica plant cell into a Brassica plant comprising the mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene, thereby producing a Brassica plant having a mutated endogenous GL2 gene and modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes or no trichomes. In some embodiments, a method is provided producing a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutated endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with a nuclease comprising a cleavage domain and a nucleic acid binding domain, wherein the nucleic acid binding domain binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous CL2 gene. Also provided herein is a method for producing a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising a mutated endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with a nuclease comprising a cleavage domain and a nucleic acid binding domain, wherein the nucleic acid binding domain binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene:(a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 90% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-89 (GL2 subgenome B) or SEQ ID NOs:90-102 (GL2 subgenome A); and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes. In some embodiments, a nuclease may cleave an endogenous GL2 gene, thereby introducing the mutation into the endogenous GL2 gene. A nuclease useful with the invention may be any nuclease that can be utilized to edit/modify a target nucleic acid. Such nucleases include, but are not limited to a zinc finger nuclease, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALEN), endonuclease (e.g., Fok1) and/or a CRISPR-Cas effector protein. Likewise, any nucleic acid binding domain useful with the invention may be any DNA binding domain or RNA binding domain that can be utilized to edit/modify a target nucleic acid. Such nucleic acid binding domains include, but are not limited to, a zinc finger, transcription activator-like DNA binding domain (TAL), an argonaute and/or a CRISPR-Cas effector DNA binding domain. In some embodiments, the Brassica plant or part thereof may comprise at least two endogenous GL2 genes, optionally wherein the GL2 genes are located in subgenomes (e.g., in an A subgenome and in a B subgenome) and the mutation is introduced into each of the at least two endogenous GL2 genes. In some embodiments, a mutation that is introduced may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation useful with the invention may be a substitution, an insertion and/or a deletion, optionally, wherein the mutation may be a dominant negative mutation, recessive mutation, knockout (e.g., null mutation) or knock down mutation (e.g., weak loss of function mutation). In some embodiments, a mutation may be an out-of- frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion. In some embodiments, the mutation may be an insertion and/or a deletion that results in a premature stop codon, optionally resulting in a truncated protein. In some embodiments, a mutation comprises a point mutation. In some embodiments, the mutation may be a deletion of one base pair to about 100 base pairs. In some embodiments, a mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene comprising a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 180, 182, or 184. In some embodiments, a mutation may result in a mutated GL2 gene that encodes a GL2 polypeptide having at least 90% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:137, 139, 141, 143, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153, 155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175, 177, 179, 181, 183, or 185. In some embodiments, a nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., DNA binding domain) is comprised in a nucleic acid binding polypeptide. A "nucleic acid binding protein" or "nucleic acid binding polypeptide" as used herein refers to a polypeptide that binds and/or is capable of binding a nucleic acid in a site- and/or sequence-specific manner. In some embodiments, a nucleic acid binding polypeptide may be a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding polypeptide (e.g., a sequence-specific DNA binding domain) such as, but not limited to, a sequence-specific binding polypeptide and/or domain from, for example, a polynucleotide-guided endonuclease, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein (e.g., a CRISPR-Cas endonuclease), a zinc finger nuclease, a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) and/or an Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, a nucleic acid binding polypeptide comprises a cleavage polypeptide (e.g., a nuclease polypeptide and/or domain) such as, but not limited to, an endonuclease (e.g., Fok1), a polynucleotide-guided endonuclease, a CRISPR-Cas endonuclease, a zinc finger nuclease, and/or a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN). In some embodiments, the nucleic acid binding polypeptide associates with and/or is capable of associating with (e.g., forms a complex with) one or more nucleic acid molecule(s) (e.g., forms a complex with a guide nucleic acid as described herein) that can direct or guide the nucleic acid binding polypeptide to a specific target nucleotide sequence (e.g., a gene locus of a genome) that is complementary to the one or more nucleic acid molecule(s) (or a portion or region thereof), thereby causing the nucleic acid binding polypeptide to bind to the nucleotide sequence at the specific target site. In some embodiments, the nucleic acid binding polypeptide is a CRISPR-Cas effector protein as described herein. In some embodiments, reference is made to specifically to a CRISPR-Cas effector protein for simplicity, but a nucleic acid binding polypeptide as described herein may be used. In some embodiments, a polynucleotide and/or a nucleic acid construct of the invention can be an “expression cassette” or can be comprised within an expression cassette. In some embodiments, a method of editing an endogenous GL2 in a Brassica plant or plant part is provided, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with a cytosine base editing system comprising a cytosine deaminase and a nucleic acid binding domain that binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene. In some embodiments, a method of editing an endogenous GL2 in a Brassica plant or plant part is provided, the method comprising contacting a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or plant part with an adenosine base editing system comprising an adenosine deaminase and a nucleic acid binding domain that binds to a target site in the endogenous GL2 gene, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, thereby producing the Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene, thereby editing the endogenous GL2 gene in the Brassica plant or part thereof and producing a Brassica plant or part thereof comprising at least one cell having a mutation in the endogenous GL2 gene. In some embodiments, a mutation may be a substitution, an insertion and/or a deletion, optionally wherein the insertion or deletion is an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion. In some embodiments, a mutation may be a hypermorphic mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation may comprise a base substitution to an A, a T, a G, or a C. In some embodiments, the mutation may be a deletion (e.g., out-of-frame deletion) of 1 base pair to about 100 consecutive base pairs, optionally, 1 base pair to about 50 consecutive base pairs, 1 base pair to about 30 consecutive base pairs or 1 base pair to about 15 consecutive base pairs in length. In some embodiments, the mutation may be an insertion (e.g., an out-of-frame insertion) of at least one base pair (e.g., 1 base pair to about 100 consecutive base pairs). A mutation in a GL2 gene may be located in the 5' region of the GL2 gene, optionally resulting a premature stop codon. In some embodiments, the deletion may be an out-of-frame deletion or the insertion may be an out- of-frame insertion that is a knockout mutation (null) or a knockdown mutation (weak loss of function), optionally, resulting in a recessive mutation and/or a dominant negative mutation. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a method of producing a Brassica plant comprising a mutation in an endogenous GL2 and at least one polynucleotide of interest, the method comprising crossing a Brassica plant of the invention comprising at least one mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene (a first Brassica plant) with a second Brassica plant that comprises the at least one polynucleotide of interest to produce progeny plants; and selecting progeny plants comprising at least one mutation in the GL2 gene and the at least one polynucleotide of interest, thereby producing the Brassica plant comprising a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene and at least one polynucleotide of interest. The present invention further provides a method of producing a Brassica plant comprising a mutation in an endogenous GL2 and at least one polynucleotide of interest, the method comprising introducing at least one polynucleotide of interest into a Brassica plant of the present invention comprising at least one mutation in a GL2 gene, thereby producing a Brassica plant comprising at least one mutation in a GL2 and at least one polynucleotide of interest. In some embodiments, also provided is a method of producing a Brassica plant comprising a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene and exhibiting a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits, comprising crossing a first Brassica plant, which is a Brassica plant of the invention (e.g., a Brassica plant comprising at least one mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene and having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as described herein), with a second Brassica plant that exhibits a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits; and selecting progeny plants comprising the mutation in the GL2 gene and a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits, thereby producing the Brassica plant comprising a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene and exhibiting a phenotype of improved yield traits, improved plant architecture and/or improved defense traits as compared to a control Brassica plant. Further provided is a method of controlling weeds in a container (e.g., pot, or seed tray and the like), a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a field, a recreational area, a lawn, or on a roadside, the method comprising applying an herbicide to one or more (a plurality) Brassica plants of the invention (e.g., a Brassica plant comprising at least one mutation in a GL2 as described herein) growing in a container, a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a field, a recreational area, a lawn, or on a roadside, thereby controlling the weeds in the container, the growth chamber, the greenhouse, the field, the recreational area, the lawn, or on the roadside in which the one or more Brassica plants are growing. In some embodiments, a method of reducing insect predation on a Brassica plant is provided, the method comprising applying an insecticide to one or more Brassica plants of the invention (e.g., a Brassica plant comprising at least one mutation in a GL2 as described herein), optionally, wherein the one or more Brassica plants are growing in a container, a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a field, a recreational area, a lawn, or on a roadside, thereby reducing insect predation on the one or more Brassica plants. In some embodiments, a method of reducing fungal disease on a Brassica plant is provided, the method comprising applying a fungicide to one or more Brassica plants of the invention (e.g., a Brassica plant comprising at least one mutation in a GL2 gene as described herein), optionally, wherein the one or more plants are growing in a container, a growth chamber, a greenhouse, a field, a recreational area, a lawn, or on a roadside, thereby reducing fungal disease on the one or more Brassica plants. A GLABRA2 (GL2) gene useful with this invention includes any endogenous GL2 gene in which a mutation as described herein can result in a phenotype of a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes in the Brassica plant or part thereof. In some embodiments, an endogenous GL2 gene (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. In some embodiments, a GL2 gene may be present in more than one copy. For example, a GL2 gene may be present in both the A subgenome and in the B subgenome of a Brassica plant (e.g., a mustard plant, e.g., a B. juncea variety), wherein the GL2 gene in both the A subgenome and the B subgenome may be modified as described herein. Example subgenome A GL2 genes can include, but are not limited to, any one of SEQ ID NOs:72, 106, 112, 118, 124, and 130. Example subgenome B GL2 genes can include, but are not limited, to any one of SEQ ID NOs:69, 109, 115, 121, 127, and 133. In some embodiments, one or more than one (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 or more) mutation may be generated in a GL2 gene (e.g., in one or more than one GL2 gene, e.g., in a subgenome A GL2 gene and/or in a subgenome B GL2 gene) of a Brassica plant (e.g., a mustard plant, a mustard green plant, a B. juncea variety). An example editing strategy useful for this invention can include generating a mutation in one or more than one GL2 gene in a Brassica plant, e.g., a Brassica plant may comprise 1, 2, 3, or 4 GL2 gene(s) each comprising at least one modification as described herein. In some embodiments, the mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene in a Brassica plant may be a base substitution, a base deletion and/or a base insertion. In some embodiments, the mutation may be a non-natural mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene in a Brassica plant may comprise a modification in the 5' region of the GL2 gene. In some embodiments, a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene in a Brassica plant may result in a Brassica plant having the phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control plant devoid of the edit/mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene may be a base substitution, a base deletion and/or a base insertion of at least 1 base pair. In some embodiments, a base deletion may be 1 nucleotide to about 100 nucleotides (e.g., about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 base pairs, or any range or value therein, e.g., 1 to about 50 consecutive base pairs, 1 to about 30 consecutive base pairs, 1 to about 15 consecutive base pairs, or any range or value therein), optionally where the mutation is at about 2 to about 100 consecutive nucleotides (e.g., 1 to about 50 consecutive base pairs, 1 to about 30 consecutive base pairs, 1 to about 15 consecutive base pairs). In some embodiments, a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene may be a base insertion of 1 to about 100 consecutive nucleotides of the GL2 nucleic acid. In some embodiments, a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene may be an out-of-frame insertion or an out-of-frame deletion that results in a GL2 gene having a premature stop codon. In some embodiments, the mutation may be a base substitution, optionally a substitution to an A, a T, a G, or a C. A mutation useful with this invention may be a point mutation. In some embodiments, a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene may be made following cleavage by an editing system that comprises a nuclease and a nucleic acid binding domain that binds to a target site within a target nucleic acid (e.g., an endogenous GL2 gene), the target nucleic acid comprising a sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%.99.9% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134, and/or encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, optionally wherein the target site is located in a region of the GL2 gene: the region comprising a sequence having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. Further provided are guide nucleic acids (e.g., gRNA, gDNA, crRNA, crDNA) that bind to a target site in a GL2 gene, wherein the target site is in a region of the GL2 gene having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%.99.9% or 100%) sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102. In some embodiments, the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer having the nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NO:103, SEQ ID NO:104 or SEQ ID NO:105. In some embodiments, a system is provided comprising a guide nucleic acid comprising a spacer (e.g., one or more spacers) having the nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs:103-105, or any combination thereof, and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein that associates with the guide nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the system may further comprise a tracr nucleic acid that associates with the guide nucleic acid and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein, optionally wherein the tracr nucleic acid and the guide nucleic acid are covalently linked. As used herein, "a CRISPR-Cas effector protein in association with a guide nucleic acid" refers to the complex that is formed between a CRISPR-Cas effector protein and a guide nucleic acid in order to direct the CRISPR-Cas effector protein to a target site in a gene. The invention further provides a gene editing system comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector protein in association with a guide nucleic acid and the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer sequence that binds to GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, optionally wherein the GL2 gene (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, or 135. In some embodiments, the gene editing system may further comprise a tracr nucleic acid that associates with the guide nucleic acid and a CRISPR-Cas effector protein, optionally wherein the tracr nucleic acid and the guide nucleic acid are covalently linked. The present invention further provides a complex comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector protein comprising a cleavage domain and a guide nucleic acid, wherein the guide nucleic acid binds to a target site in an endogenous GL2 gene in a Brassica plant, wherein the endogenous GL2 gene: (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135, and the cleavage domain cleaves a target strand in the GL2 gene. In some embodiments, an expression cassette(s) is/are provided that comprise (a) a polynucleotide encoding CRISPR-Cas effector protein comprising a cleavage domain and (b) a guide nucleic acid that binds to a target site in an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene, wherein the guide nucleic acid comprises a spacer sequence that is complementary to and binds to (i) a portion of a nucleic acid having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (ii) a portion of a nucleic acid having at least 80% sequence identity to any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; and/or (iii) a portion of a nucleic acid encoding an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. Also provided are nucleic acids encoding a GL2 polypeptide, optionally wherein when present in a Brassica plant or plant part the mutated GL2 polypeptide/mutated GL2 gene results in the Brassica plant comprising a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant devoid of the edit/mutation. Nucleic acid constructs of the invention (e.g., a construct comprising a sequence specific nucleic acid binding domain (e.g., sequence specific DNA binding domain), a CRISPR-Cas effector domain, a deaminase domain, reverse transcriptase (RT), RT template and/or a guide nucleic acid, etc.) and expression cassettes/vectors comprising the same may be used as an editing system of this invention for modifying target nucleic acids (e.g., endogenous GL2 genes) and/or their expression. Any Brassica plant may be used with this invention that comprises an endogenous GLABRA2 (GL2) gene that is capable of conferring modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes when modified as described herein (e.g., mutated, e.g., base edited, cleaved, nicked, etc.; e.g., using the polypeptides, polynucleotides, RNPs, nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes, and/or vectors of the invention). An editing system useful with this invention can be any site-specific (sequence-specific) genome editing system now known or later developed, which system can introduce mutations in a target specific manner. For example, an editing system (e.g., site- or sequence-specific editing system) can include, but is not limited to, a CRISPR-Cas editing system, a meganuclease editing system, a zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) editing system, a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) editing system, a base editing system and/or a prime editing system, each of which can comprise one or more polypeptides and/or one or more polynucleotides that when expressed as a system in a cell can modify (mutate) a target nucleic acid in a sequence specific manner. In some embodiments, an editing system (e.g., site- or sequence-specific editing system) can comprise one or more polynucleotides and/or one or more polypeptides, including but not limited to a nucleic acid binding domain (DNA binding domain), a nuclease, and/or other polypeptide, and/or a polynucleotide. In some embodiments, an editing system can comprise one or more sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domains (DNA binding domains) that can be from, for example, a polynucleotide-guided endonuclease, a CRISPR-Cas endonuclease (e.g., CRISPR-Cas effector protein), a zinc finger nuclease, a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) and/or an Argonaute protein. In some embodiments, an editing system can comprise one or more cleavage domains (e.g., nucleases) including, but not limited to, an endonuclease (e.g., Fok1), a polynucleotide-guided endonuclease, a CRISPR-Cas endonuclease (e.g., CRISPR-Cas effector protein), a zinc finger nuclease, and/or a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN). In some embodiments, an editing system can comprise one or more polypeptides that include, but are not limited to, a deaminase (e.g., a cytosine deaminase, an adenine deaminase), a reverse transcriptase, a Dna2 polypeptide, and/or a 5' flap endonuclease (FEN). In some embodiments, an editing system can comprise one or more polynucleotides, including, but is not limited to, a CRISPR array (CRISPR guide) nucleic acid, extended guide nucleic acid, and/or a reverse transcriptase template. In some embodiments, a method of modifying or editing a GL2 gene (and optionally a gene of interest) may comprise contacting a target nucleic acid (e.g., a nucleic acid encoding a GL2 polypeptide) with a base-editing fusion protein (e.g., a sequence specific DNA binding protein (e.g., a CRISPR-Cas effector protein or domain) fused to a deaminase domain (e.g., an adenine deaminase and/or a cytosine deaminase) and a guide nucleic acid, wherein the guide nucleic acid is capable of guiding/targeting the base editing fusion protein to the target nucleic acid, thereby editing a locus within the target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, a base editing fusion protein and guide nucleic acid may be comprised in one or more expression cassettes. In some embodiments, the target nucleic acid may be contacted with a base editing fusion protein and an expression cassette comprising a guide nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding fusion proteins and guides may be provided as ribonucleoproteins (RNPs). In some embodiments, a cell may be contacted with more than one base-editing fusion protein and/or one or more guide nucleic acids that may target one or more target nucleic acids in the cell. In some embodiments, a method of modifying or editing GL2 gene may comprise contacting a target nucleic acid (e.g., a nucleic acid encoding a GL2 polypeptide) with a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding fusion protein (e.g., a sequence-specific DNA binding protein (e.g., a CRISPR-Cas effector protein or domain) fused to a peptide tag, a deaminase fusion protein comprising a deaminase domain (e.g., an adenine deaminase and/or a cytosine deaminase) fused to an affinity polypeptide that is capable of binding to the peptide tag, and a guide nucleic acid, wherein the guide nucleic acid is capable of guiding/targeting the sequence- specific nucleic acid binding fusion protein to the target nucleic acid and the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding fusion protein is capable of recruiting the deaminase fusion protein to the target nucleic acid via the peptide tag-affinity polypeptide interaction, thereby editing a locus within the target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding fusion protein may be fused to the affinity polypeptide that binds the peptide tag and the deaminase may be fused to the peptide tag, thereby recruiting the deaminase to the sequence- specific nucleic acid binding fusion protein and to the target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the sequence-specific binding fusion protein, deaminase fusion protein, and guide nucleic acid may be comprised in one or more expression cassettes. In some embodiments, the target nucleic acid may be contacted with a sequence-specific binding fusion protein, deaminase fusion protein, and an expression cassette comprising a guide nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the sequence-specific nucleic acid binding fusion proteins, deaminase fusion proteins and guides may be provided as ribonucleoproteins (RNPs). In some embodiments, methods such as prime editing may be used to generate a mutation in an endogenous GL2 gene in a Brassica plant or part thereof. In prime editing, RNA- dependent DNA polymerase (reverse transcriptase, RT) and reverse transcriptase templates (RT template) are used in combination with sequence specific nucleic acid binding domains that confer the ability to recognize and bind the target in a sequence-specific manner, and which can also cause a nick of the PAM-containing strand within the target. The nucleic acid binding domain may be a CRISPR-Cas effector protein and in this case, the CRISPR array or guide RNA may be an extended guide that comprises an extended portion comprising a primer binding site (PSB) and the edit to be incorporated into the genome (the template). Similar to base editing, prime editing can take advantages of the various methods of recruiting proteins for use in the editing to the target site, such methods including both non-covalent and covalent interactions between the proteins and nucleic acids used in the selected process of genome editing. As used herein, a "CRISPR-Cas effector protein" is a protein or polypeptide or domain thereof that cleaves or cuts a nucleic acid, binds a nucleic acid (e.g., a target nucleic acid and/or a guide nucleic acid), and/or that identifies, recognizes, or binds a guide nucleic acid as defined herein. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be an enzyme (e.g., a nuclease, endonuclease, nickase, etc.) or portion thereof and/or may function as an enzyme. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein refers to a CRISPR-Cas nuclease polypeptide or domain thereof that comprises nuclease activity or in which the nuclease activity has been reduced or eliminated, and/or comprises nickase activity or in which the nickase has been reduced or eliminated, and/or comprises single stranded DNA cleavage activity (ss DNAse activity) or in which the ss DNAse activity has been reduced or eliminated, and/or comprises self-processing RNAse activity or in which the self-processing RNAse activity has been reduced or eliminated. A CRISPR-Cas effector protein may bind to a target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domain may be a CRISPR-Cas effector protein. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be from a Type I CRISPR-Cas system, a Type II CRISPR-Cas system, a Type III CRISPR-Cas system, a Type IV CRISPR-Cas system, Type V CRISPR-Cas system, or a Type VI CRISPR- Cas system. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein of the invention may be from a Type II CRISPR-Cas system or a Type V CRISPR-Cas system. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be Type II CRISPR-Cas effector protein, for example, a Cas9 effector protein. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be Type V CRISPR-Cas effector protein, for example, a Cas12 effector protein. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein may include, but is not limited to, a Cas9, C2c1, C2c3, Cas12a (also referred to as Cpf1), Cas12b, Cas12c, Cas12d, Cas12e, Cas13a, Cas13b, Cas13c, Cas13d, Casl, CaslB, Cas2, Cas3, Cas3', Cas3", Cas4, Cas5, Cas6, Cas7, Cas8, Cas9 (also known as Csnl and Csx12), Cas10, Csyl, Csy2, Csy3, Csel, Cse2, Cscl, Csc2, Csa5, Csn2, Csm2, Csm3, Csm4, Csm5, Csm6, Cmrl, Cmr3, Cmr4, Cmr5, Cmr6, Csbl, Csb2, Csb3, Csxl7, Csxl4, Csx10, Csx16, CsaX, Csx3, Csxl, Csxl5, Csfl, Csf2, Csf3, Csf4 (dinG), and/or Csf5 nuclease, optionally wherein the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9, Cas12a (Cpf1), Cas12b, Cas12c (C2c3), Cas12d (CasY), Cas12e (CasX), Cas12g, Cas12h, Cas12i, C2c4, C2c5, C2c8, C2c9, C2c10, Cas14a, Cas14b, and/or Cas14c effector protein. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein useful with the invention may comprise a mutation in its nuclease active site (e.g., RuvC, HNH, e.g., RuvC site of a Cas12a nuclease domain; e.g., RuvC site and/or HNH site of a Cas9 nuclease domain). A CRISPR-Cas effector protein having a mutation in its nuclease active site, and therefore, no longer comprising nuclease activity, is commonly referred to as "dead," e.g., dCas. In some embodiments, a CRISPR-Cas effector protein domain or polypeptide having a mutation in its nuclease active site may have impaired activity or reduced activity as compared to the same CRISPR-Cas effector protein without the mutation, e.g., a nickase, e.g., Cas9 nickase, Cas12a nickase. A CRISPR Cas9 effector protein or CRISPR Cas9 effector domain useful with this invention may be any known or later identified Cas9 nuclease. In some embodiments, a CRISPR Cas9 polypeptide can be a Cas9 polypeptide from, for example, Streptococcus spp. (e.g., S. pyogenes, S. thermophilus), Lactobacillus spp., Bifidobacterium spp., Kandleria spp., Leuconostoc spp., Oenococcus spp., Pediococcus spp., Weissella spp., and/or Olsenella spp. Example Cas9 sequences include, but are not limited to, the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO:56 and SEQ ID NO:57 or the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:58-68. In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9 polypeptide derived from Streptococcus pyogenes and recognizes the PAM sequence motif NGG, NAG, NGA (Mali et al, Science 2013; 339(6121): 823-826). In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9 polypeptide derived from Streptococcus thermophiles and recognizes the PAM sequence motif NGGNG and/or NNAGAAW (W = A or T) (See, e.g., Horvath et al, Science, 2010; 327(5962): 167-170, and Deveau et al, J Bacteriol 2008; 190(4): 1390-1400). In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9 polypeptide derived from Streptococcus mutans and recognizes the PAM sequence motif NGG and/or NAAR (R = A or G) (See, e.g., Deveau et al, J BACTERIOL 2008; 190(4): 1390-1400). In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9 polypeptide derived from Streptococcus aureus and recognizes the PAM sequence motif NNGRR (R = A or G). In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9 protein derived from S. aureus, which recognizes the PAM sequence motif N GRRT (R = A or G). In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9 polypeptide derived from S. aureus, which recognizes the PAM sequence motif N GRRV (R = A or G). In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas9 polypeptide that is derived from Neisseria meningitidis and recognizes the PAM sequence motif N GATT or N GCTT (R = A or G, V = A, G or C) (See, e.g., Hou et ah, PNAS 2013, 1-6). In the aforementioned embodiments, N can be any nucleotide residue, e.g., any of A, G, C or T. In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be a Cas13a protein derived from Leptotrichia shahii, which recognizes a protospacer flanking sequence (PFS) (or RNA PAM (rPAM)) sequence motif of a single 3' A, U, or C, which may be located within the target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein may be derived from Cas12a, which is a Type V Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas nuclease see, e.g., amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs:1-17, nucleic acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs:18-20. Cas12a differs in several respects from the more well-known Type II CRISPR Cas9 nuclease. For example, Cas9 recognizes a G-rich protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) that is 3' to its guide RNA (gRNA, sgRNA, crRNA, crDNA, CRISPR array) binding site (protospacer, target nucleic acid, target DNA) (3'-NGG), while Cas12a recognizes a T-rich PAM that is located 5' to the target nucleic acid (5'-TTN, 5'-TTTN. In fact, the orientations in which Cas9 and Cas12a bind their guide RNAs are very nearly reversed in relation to their N and C termini. Furthermore, Cas12a enzymes use a single guide RNA (gRNA, CRISPR array, crRNA) rather than the dual guide RNA (sgRNA (e.g., crRNA and tracrRNA)) found in natural Cas9 systems, and Cas12a processes its own gRNAs. Additionally, Cas12a nuclease activity produces staggered DNA double stranded breaks instead of blunt ends produced by Cas9 nuclease activity, and Cas12a relies on a single RuvC domain to cleave both DNA strands, whereas Cas9 utilizes an HNH domain and a RuvC domain for cleavage. A CRISPR Cas12a effector protein/domain useful with this invention may be any known or later identified Cas12a polypeptide (previously known as Cpf1) (see, e.g., U.S. Patent No. 9,790,490, which is incorporated by reference for its disclosures of Cpf1 (Cas12a) sequences). The term "Cas12a", "Cas12a polypeptide" or "Cas12a domain" refers to an RNA-guided nuclease comprising a Cas12a polypeptide, or a fragment thereof, which comprises the guide nucleic acid binding domain of Cas12a and/or an active, inactive, or partially active DNA cleavage domain of Cas12a. In some embodiments, a Cas12a useful with the invention may comprise a mutation in the nuclease active site (e.g., RuvC site of the Cas12a domain). A Cas12a domain or Cas12a polypeptide having a mutation in its nuclease active site, and therefore, no longer comprising nuclease activity, is commonly referred to as deadCas12a (e.g., dCas12a). In some embodiments, a Cas12a domain or Cas12a polypeptide having a mutation in its nuclease active site may have impaired activity, e.g., may have nickase activity. Any deaminase domain/polypeptide useful for base editing may be used with this invention. In some embodiments, the deaminase domain may be a cytosine deaminase domain or an adenine deaminase domain. A cytosine deaminase (or cytidine deaminase) useful with this invention may be any known or later identified cytosine deaminase from any organism (see, e.g., U.S. Patent No.10,167,457 and Thuronyi et al. Nat. Biotechnol.37:1070–1079 (2019), each of which is incorporated by reference herein for its disclosure of cytosine deaminases). Cytosine deaminases can catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of cytidine or deoxycytidine to uridine or deoxyuridine, respectively. Thus, in some embodiments, a deaminase or deaminase domain useful with this invention may be a cytidine deaminase domain, catalyzing the hydrolytic deamination of cytosine to uracil. In some embodiments, a cytosine deaminase may be a variant of a naturally occurring cytosine deaminase, including but not limited to a primate (e.g., a human, monkey, chimpanzee, gorilla), a dog, a cow, a rat or a mouse. Thus, in some embodiments, a cytosine deaminase useful with the invention may be about 70% to about 100% identical to a wild type cytosine deaminase (e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or 100% identical, and any range or value therein, to a naturally occurring cytosine deaminase). In some embodiments, a cytosine deaminase useful with the invention may be an apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing complex (APOBEC) family deaminase. In some embodiments, the cytosine deaminase may be an APOBEC1 deaminase, an APOBEC2 deaminase, an APOBEC3A deaminase, an APOBEC3B deaminase, an APOBEC3C deaminase, an APOBEC3D deaminase, an APOBEC3F deaminase, an APOBEC3G deaminase, an APOBEC3H deaminase, an APOBEC4 deaminase, a human activation induced deaminase (hAID), an rAPOBEC1, FERNY, and/or a CDA1, optionally a pmCDA1, an atCDA1 (e.g., At2g19570), and evolved versions of the same (e.g., SEQ ID NO:27, SEQ ID NO:28 or SEQ ID NO:29). In some embodiments, the cytosine deaminase may be an APOBEC1 deaminase having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:23. In some embodiments, the cytosine deaminase may be an APOBEC3A deaminase having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:24. In some embodiments, the cytosine deaminase may be an CDA1 deaminase, optionally a CDA1 having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:25. In some embodiments, the cytosine deaminase may be a FERNY deaminase, optionally a FERNY having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:26. In some embodiments, a cytosine deaminase useful with the invention may be about 70% to about 100% identical (e.g., 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100% identical) to the amino acid sequence of a naturally occurring cytosine deaminase (e.g., an evolved deaminase). In some embodiments, a cytosine deaminase useful with the invention may be about 70% to about 99.5% identical (e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or 99.5% identical) to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:23, SEQ ID NO:24, SEQ ID NO:25 or SEQ ID NO:26 (e.g., at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 92%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:23, SEQ ID NO:24, SEQ ID NO:25, SEQ ID NO:26, SEQ ID NO:27, SEQ ID NO:28 or SEQ ID NO:29). In some embodiments, a polynucleotide encoding a cytosine deaminase may be codon optimized for expression in a plant and the codon optimized polypeptide may be about 70% to 99.5% identical to the reference polynucleotide. In some embodiments, a nucleic acid construct of this invention may further encode a uracil glycosylase inhibitor (UGI) (e.g., uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor) polypeptide/domain. Thus, in some embodiments, a nucleic acid construct encoding a CRISPR-Cas effector protein and a cytosine deaminase domain (e.g., encoding a fusion protein comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector protein domain fused to a cytosine deaminase domain, and/or a CRISPR-Cas effector protein domain fused to a peptide tag or to an affinity polypeptide capable of binding a peptide tag and/or a deaminase protein domain fused to a peptide tag or to an affinity polypeptide capable of binding a peptide tag) may further encode a uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor (UGI), optionally wherein the UGI may be codon optimized for expression in a plant. In some embodiments, the invention provides fusion proteins comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector polypeptide, a deaminase domain, and a UGI and/or one or more polynucleotides encoding the same, optionally wherein the one or more polynucleotides may be codon optimized for expression in a plant. In some embodiments, the invention provides fusion proteins, wherein a CRISPR-Cas effector polypeptide, a deaminase domain, and a UGI may be fused to any combination of peptide tags and affinity polypeptides as described herein, thereby recruiting the deaminase domain and UGI to the CRISPR-Cas effector polypeptide and a target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, a guide nucleic acid may be linked to a recruiting RNA motif and one or more of the deaminase domain and/or UGI may be fused to an affinity polypeptide that is capable of interacting with the recruiting RNA motif, thereby recruiting the deaminase domain and UGI to a target nucleic acid. A "uracil glycosylase inhibitor" useful with the invention may be any protein that is capable of inhibiting a uracil-DNA glycosylase base-excision repair enzyme. In some embodiments, a UGI domain comprises a wild type UGI or a fragment thereof. In some embodiments, a UGI domain useful with the invention may be about 70% to about 100% identical (e.g., 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100% identical and any range or value therein) to the amino acid sequence of a naturally occurring UGI domain. In some embodiments, a UGI domain may comprise the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:41 or a polypeptide having about 70% to about 99.5% sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:41 (e.g., at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 92%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or at least 99.5% identical to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:41). For example, in some embodiments, a UGI domain may comprise a fragment of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:41 that is 100% identical to a portion of consecutive nucleotides (e.g., 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80 consecutive nucleotides; e.g., about 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, to about 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80 consecutive nucleotides) of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:41. In some embodiments, a UGI domain may be a variant of a known UGI (e.g., SEQ ID NO:41) having about 70% to about 99.5% sequence identity (e.g., 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% sequence identity, and any range or value therein) to the known UGI. In some embodiments, a polynucleotide encoding a UGI may be codon optimized for expression in a plant (e.g., a plant) and the codon optimized polypeptide may be about 70% to about 99.5% identical to the reference polynucleotide. An adenine deaminase (or adenosine deaminase) useful with this invention may be any known or later identified adenine deaminase from any organism (see, e.g., U.S. Patent No. 10,113,163, which is incorporated by reference herein for its disclosure of adenine deaminases). An adenine deaminase can catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of adenine or adenosine. In some embodiments, the adenine deaminase may catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of adenosine or deoxyadenosine to inosine or deoxyinosine, respectively. In some embodiments, the adenosine deaminase may catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of adenine or adenosine in DNA. In some embodiments, an adenine deaminase encoded by a nucleic acid construct of the invention may generate an A→G conversion in the sense (e.g., ; template) strand of the target nucleic acid or a T→C conversion in the antisense (e.g., "˗", complementary) strand of the target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, an adenosine deaminase may be a variant of a naturally occurring adenine deaminase. Thus, in some embodiments, an adenosine deaminase may be about 70% to 100% identical to a wild type adenine deaminase (e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or 100% identical, and any range or value therein, to a naturally occurring adenine deaminase). In some embodiments, the deaminase or deaminase does not occur in nature and may be referred to as an engineered, mutated or evolved adenosine deaminase. Thus, for example, an engineered, mutated or evolved adenine deaminase polypeptide or an adenine deaminase domain may be about 70% to 99.9% identical to a naturally occurring adenine deaminase polypeptide/domain (e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.1%, 99.2%, 99.3%, 99.4%, 99.5%, 99.6%, 99.7%, 99.8% or 99.9% identical, and any range or value therein, to a naturally occurring adenine deaminase polypeptide or adenine deaminase domain). In some embodiments, the adenosine deaminase may be from a bacterium, (e.g., Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, Caulobacter crescentus, and the like). In some embodiments, a polynucleotide encoding an adenine deaminase polypeptide/domain may be codon optimized for expression in a plant. In some embodiments, an adenine deaminase domain may be a wild type tRNA-specific adenosine deaminase domain, e.g., a tRNA-specific adenosine deaminase (TadA) and/or a mutated/evolved adenosine deaminase domain, e.g., mutated/evolved tRNA-specific adenosine deaminase domain (TadA*). In some embodiments, a TadA domain may be from E. coli. In some embodiments, the TadA may be modified, e.g., truncated, missing one or more N-terminal and/or C-terminal amino acids relative to a full-length TadA (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 6, 17, 18, 19, or 20 N-terminal and/or C terminal amino acid residues may be missing relative to a full length TadA. In some embodiments, a TadA polypeptide or TadA domain does not comprise an N-terminal methionine. In some embodiments, a wild type E. coli TadA comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:30. In some embodiments, a mutated/evolved E. coli TadA* comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NOs:31-40 (e.g., SEQ ID NOs: 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 or 40). In some embodiments, a polynucleotide encoding a TadA/TadA* may be codon optimized for expression in a plant. A cytosine deaminase catalyzes cytosine deamination and results in a thymidine (through a uracil intermediate), causing a C to T conversion, or a G to A conversion in the complementary strand in the genome. Thus, in some embodiments, the cytosine deaminase encoded by the polynucleotide of the invention generates a C→T conversion in the sense (e.g., "+"; template) strand of the target nucleic acid or a G →A conversion in antisense (e.g., "˗", complementary) strand of the target nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the adenine deaminase encoded by the nucleic acid construct of the invention generates an A→G conversion in the sense (e.g., "; template) strand of the target nucleic acid or a T→C conversion in the antisense (e.g., "˗", complementary) strand of the target nucleic acid. The nucleic acid constructs of the invention encoding a base editor comprising a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein and a cytosine deaminase polypeptide, and nucleic acid constructs/expression cassettes/vectors encoding the same, may be used in combination with guide nucleic acids for modifying target nucleic acid including, but not limited to, generation of C→T or G →A mutations in a target nucleic acid including, but not limited to, a plasmid sequence; generation of C→T or G →A mutations in a coding sequence to alter an amino acid identity; generation of C→T or G →A mutations in a coding sequence to generate a stop codon; generation of C→T or G →A mutations in a coding sequence to disrupt a start codon; generation of point mutations in genomic DNA to disrupt function; and/or generation of point mutations in genomic DNA to disrupt splice junctions. The nucleic acid constructs of the invention encoding a base editor comprising a sequence-specific nucleic acid binding protein and an adenine deaminase polypeptide, and expression cassettes and/or vectors encoding the same may be used in combination with guide nucleic acids for modifying a target nucleic acid including, but not limited to, generation of A→G or T→C mutations in a target nucleic acid including, but not limited to, a plasmid sequence; generation of A→G or T→C mutations in a coding sequence to alter an amino acid identity; generation of A→G or T→C mutations in a coding sequence to generate a stop codon; generation of A→G or T→C mutations in a coding sequence to disrupt a start codon; generation of point mutations in genomic DNA to disrupt function; and/or generation of point mutations in genomic DNA to disrupt splice junctions. The nucleic acid constructs of the invention comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector protein or a fusion protein thereof may be used in combination with a guide RNA (gRNA, CRISPR array, CRISPR RNA, crRNA), designed to function with the encoded CRISPR-Cas effector protein or domain, to modify a target nucleic acid. A guide nucleic acid useful with this invention comprises at least one spacer sequence and at least one repeat sequence. The guide nucleic acid is capable of forming a complex with the CRISPR-Cas nuclease domain encoded and expressed by a nucleic acid construct of the invention and the spacer sequence is capable of hybridizing to a target nucleic acid, thereby guiding the complex (e.g., a CRISPR-Cas effector fusion protein (e.g., CRISPR-Cas effector domain fused to a deaminase domain and/or a CRISPR-Cas effector domain fused to a peptide tag or an affinity polypeptide to recruit a deaminase domain and optionally, a UGI) to the target nucleic acid, wherein the target nucleic acid may be modified (e.g., cleaved or edited) or modulated (e.g., modulating transcription) by the deaminase domain. As an example, a nucleic acid construct encoding a Cas9 domain linked to a cytosine deaminase domain (e.g., fusion protein) may be used in combination with a Cas9 guide nucleic acid to modify a target nucleic acid, wherein the cytosine deaminase domain of the fusion protein deaminates a cytosine base in the target nucleic acid, thereby editing the target nucleic acid. In a further example, a nucleic acid construct encoding a Cas9 domain linked to an adenine deaminase domain (e.g., fusion protein) may be used in combination with a Cas9 guide nucleic acid to modify a target nucleic acid, wherein the adenine deaminase domain of the fusion protein deaminates an adenosine base in the target nucleic acid, thereby editing the target nucleic acid. Likewise, a nucleic acid construct encoding a Cas12a domain (or other selected CRISPR-Cas nuclease, e.g., C2c1, C2c3, Cas12b, Cas12c, Cas12d, Cas12e, Cas13a, Cas13b, Cas13c, Cas13d, Casl, CaslB, Cas2, Cas3, Cas3', Cas3", Cas4, Cas5, Cas6, Cas7, Cas8, Cas9 (also known as Csnl and Csx12), Cas10, Csyl, Csy2, Csy3, Csel, Cse2, Cscl, Csc2, Csa5, Csn2, Csm2, Csm3, Csm4, Csm5, Csm6, Cmrl, Cmr3, Cmr4, Cmr5, Cmr6, Csbl, Csb2, Csb3, Csxl7, Csxl4, Csx10, Csx16, CsaX, Csx3, Csxl, Csxl5, Csfl, Csf2, Csf3, Csf4 (dinG), and/or Csf5) linked to a cytosine deaminase domain or adenine deaminase domain (e.g., fusion protein) may be used in combination with a Cas12a guide nucleic acid (or the guide nucleic acid for the other selected CRISPR-Cas nuclease) to modify a target nucleic acid, wherein the cytosine deaminase domain or adenine deaminase domain of the fusion protein deaminates a cytosine base in the target nucleic acid, thereby editing the target nucleic acid. A "guide nucleic acid," "guide RNA," "gRNA," "CRISPR RNA/DNA" "crRNA" or "crDNA" as used herein means a nucleic acid that comprises at least one spacer sequence, which is complementary to (and hybridizes to) a target DNA (e.g., protospacer), and at least one repeat sequence (e.g., a repeat of a Type V Cas12a CRISPR-Cas system, or a fragment or portion thereof; a repeat of a Type II Cas9 CRISPR-Cas system, or fragment thereof; a repeat of a Type V C2c1 CRISPR Cas system, or a fragment thereof; a repeat of a CRISPR-Cas system of, for example, C2c3, Cas12a (also referred to as Cpf1), Cas12b, Cas12c, Cas12d, Cas12e, Cas13a, Cas13b, Cas13c, Cas13d, Casl, CaslB, Cas2, Cas3, Cas3', Cas3", Cas4, Cas5, Cas6, Cas7, Cas8, Cas9 (also known as Csnl and Csx12), Cas10, Csyl, Csy2, Csy3, Csel, Cse2, Cscl, Csc2, Csa5, Csn2, Csm2, Csm3, Csm4, Csm5, Csm6, Cmrl, Cmr3, Cmr4, Cmr5, Cmr6, Csbl, Csb2, Csb3, Csxl7, Csxl4, Csx10, Csx16, CsaX, Csx3, Csxl, Csxl5, Csfl, Csf2, Csf3, Csf4 (dinG), and/or Csf5, or a fragment thereof), wherein the repeat sequence may be linked to the 5' end and/or the 3' end of the spacer sequence. The design of a gRNA of this invention may be based on a Type I, Type II, Type III, Type IV, Type V, or Type VI CRISPR-Cas system. In some embodiments, a Cas12a gRNA may comprise, from 5' to 3', a repeat sequence (full length or portion thereof ("handle"); e.g., pseudoknot-like structure) and a spacer sequence. In some embodiments, a guide nucleic acid may comprise more than one repeat sequence-spacer sequence (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or more repeat-spacer sequences) (e.g., repeat-spacer- repeat, e.g., repeat-spacer-repeat-spacer-repeat-spacer-repeat-spacer-repe at-spacer, and the like). The guide nucleic acids of this invention are synthetic, human-made, and not found in nature. A gRNA can be quite long and may be used as an aptamer (like in the MS2 recruitment strategy) or other RNA structures hanging off the spacer. A "repeat sequence" as used herein, refers to, for example, any repeat sequence of a wild-type CRISPR Cas locus (e.g., a Cas9 locus, a Cas12a locus, a C2c1 locus, etc.) or a repeat sequence of a synthetic crRNA that is functional with the CRISPR-Cas effector protein encoded by the nucleic acid constructs of the invention. A repeat sequence useful with this invention can be any known or later identified repeat sequence of a CRISPR-Cas locus (e.g., Type I, Type II, Type III, Type IV, Type V or Type VI) or it can be a synthetic repeat designed to function in a Type I, II, III, IV, V or VI CRISPR-Cas system. A repeat sequence may comprise a hairpin structure and/or a stem loop structure. In some embodiments, a repeat sequence may form a pseudoknot-like structure at its 5' end (i.e., "handle"). Thus, in some embodiments, a repeat sequence can be identical to or substantially identical to a repeat sequence from wild-type Type I CRISPR-Cas loci, Type II, CRISPR-Cas loci, Type III, CRISPR-Cas loci, Type IV CRISPR-Cas loci, Type V CRISPR-Cas loci and/or Type VI CRISPR-Cas loci. A repeat sequence from a wild-type CRISPR-Cas locus may be determined through established algorithms, such as using the CRISPRfinder offered through CRISPRdb (see, Grissa et al. Nucleic Acids Res.35(Web Server issue):W52-7). In some embodiments, a repeat sequence or portion thereof is linked at its 3' end to the 5' end of a spacer sequence, thereby forming a repeat-spacer sequence (e.g., guide nucleic acid, guide RNA/DNA, crRNA, crDNA). In some embodiments, a repeat sequence comprises, consists essentially of, or consists of at least 10 nucleotides depending on the particular repeat and whether the guide nucleic acid comprising the repeat is processed or unprocessed (e.g., about 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 to 100 or more nucleotides, or any range or value therein). In some embodiments, a repeat sequence comprises, consists essentially of, or consists of about 10 to about 20, about 10 to about 30, about 10 to about 45, about 10 to about 50, about 15 to about 30, about 15 to about 40, about 15 to about 45, about 15 to about 50, about 20 to about 30, about 20 to about 40, about 20 to about 50, about 30 to about 40, about 40 to about 80, about 50 to about 100 or more nucleotides. A repeat sequence linked to the 5' end of a spacer sequence can comprise a portion of a repeat sequence (e.g., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 or more contiguous nucleotides of a wild type repeat sequence). In some embodiments, a portion of a repeat sequence linked to the 5' end of a spacer sequence can be about five to about ten consecutive nucleotides in length (e.g., about 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 nucleotides) and have at least 90% sequence identity (e.g., at least about 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more (e.g., 99.1, 99.2, 99.3, 99.4, 99.5, 99.6, 99.7, 99.8, 99.9, or 100%)) to the same region (e.g., 5' end) of a wild type CRISPR Cas repeat nucleotide sequence. In some embodiments, a portion of a repeat sequence may comprise a pseudoknot-like structure at its 5' end (e.g., "handle"). A "spacer sequence" as used herein is a nucleotide sequence that is complementary to a target nucleic acid (e.g., target DNA, GL2 gene) (e.g., protospacer) (e.g., a portion of consecutive nucleotides of a sequence that (a) comprises a sequence having at least 80% (e.g., 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5%.99.9% or 100%) sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence of any one SEQ ID NOs:69, 70, 72, 73, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125, 127, 128, 130, 131, 133 and/or 134; (b) comprises a region having at least 80% identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs:75-102; (c) encodes an amino acid sequence having at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs:71, 74, 108, 111, 114, 117, 120, 123, 126, 129, 132, and/or 135. In some embodiments, a spacer sequence (e.g., one or more spacers) may include, but is not limited to, the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs:103-105, or any combination thereof. The spacer sequence can be fully complementary or substantially complementary (e.g., at least about 70% complementary (e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more (e.g., 99.1, 99.2, 99.3, 99.4, 99.5, 99.6, 99.7, 99.8, 99.9, or 100%)) to a target nucleic acid. Thus, in some embodiments, the spacer sequence can have one, two, three, four, or five mismatches as compared to the target nucleic acid, which mismatches can be contiguous or noncontiguous. In some embodiments, the spacer sequence can have 70% complementarity to a target nucleic acid. In other embodiments, the spacer nucleotide sequence can have 80% complementarity to a target nucleic acid. In still other embodiments, the spacer nucleotide sequence can have 85%, 90%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99% or 99.5% complementarity, and the like, to the target nucleic acid (protospacer). In some embodiments, the spacer sequence is 100% complementary to the target nucleic acid. A spacer sequence may have a length from about 15 nucleotides to about 30 nucleotides (e.g., 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, or 30 nucleotides, or any range or value therein). Thus, in some embodiments, a spacer sequence may have complete complementarity or substantial complementarity over a region of a target nucleic acid (e.g., protospacer) that is at least about 15 nucleotides to about 30 nucleotides in length. In some embodiments, the spacer is about 20 nucleotides in length. In some embodiments, the spacer is about 21, 22, or 23 nucleotides in length. In some embodiments, the 5' region of a spacer sequence of a guide nucleic acid may be identical to a target DNA, while the 3' region of the spacer may be substantially complementary to the target DNA (see, for example, a spacer sequence of a Type V CRISPR-Cas system), or the 3' region of a spacer sequence of a guide nucleic acid may be identical to a target DNA, while the 5' region of the spacer may be substantially complementary to the target DNA (see, for example, a spacer sequence of a Type II CRISPR-Cas system), and therefore, the overall complementarity of the spacer sequence to the target DNA may be less than 100%. Thus, for example, in a guide for a Type V CRISPR-Cas system, the first 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 nucleotides in the 5' region (i.e., seed region) of, for example, a 20 nucleotide spacer sequence may be 100% complementary to the target DNA, while the remaining nucleotides in the 3' region of the spacer sequence are substantially complementary (e.g., at least about 70% complementary) to the target DNA. In some embodiments, the first 1 to 8 nucleotides (e.g., the first 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, nucleotides, and any range therein) of the 5' end of the spacer sequence may be 100% complementary to the target DNA, while the remaining nucleotides in the 3' region of the spacer sequence are substantially complementary (e.g., at least about 50% complementary (e.g., 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more)) to the target DNA. As a further example, in a guide for a Type II CRISPR-Cas system, the first 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 nucleotides in the 3' region (i.e., seed region) of, for example, a 20-nucleotide spacer sequence may be 100% complementary to the target DNA, while the remaining nucleotides in the 5' region of the spacer sequence are substantially complementary (e.g., at least about 70% complementary) to the target DNA. In some embodiments, the first 1 to 10 nucleotides (e.g., the first 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 nucleotides, and any range therein) of the 3' end of the spacer sequence may be 100% complementary to the target DNA, while the remaining nucleotides in the 5' region of the spacer sequence are substantially complementary (e.g., at least about 50% complementary (e.g., at least about 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more or any range or value therein)) to the target DNA. In some embodiments, a seed region of a spacer may be about 8 to about 10 nucleotides in length, about 5 to about 6 nucleotides in length, or about 6 nucleotides in length. As used herein, a "target nucleic acid", "target DNA," "target nucleotide sequence," "target region," or a "target region in the genome" refers to a region of a plant's genome that is fully complementary (100% complementary) or substantially complementary (e.g., at least 70% complementary (e.g., 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or more)) to a spacer sequence in a guide nucleic acid of this invention. A target region useful for a CRISPR-Cas system may be located immediately 3' (e.g., Type V CRISPR- Cas system) or immediately 5' (e.g., Type II CRISPR-Cas system) to a PAM sequence in the genome of the organism (e.g., a plant genome). A target region may be selected from any region of at least 15 consecutive nucleotides (e.g., 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 nucleotides, and the like) located immediately adjacent to a PAM sequence. A "protospacer sequence" refers to the target double stranded DNA and specifically to the portion of the target DNA (e.g., or target region in the genome) that is fully or substantially complementary (and hybridizes) to the spacer sequence of the CRISPR repeat-spacer sequences (e.g., guide nucleic acids, CRISPR arrays, crRNAs). In the case of Type V CRISPR-Cas (e.g., Cas12a) systems and Type II CRISPR-Cas (Cas9) systems, the protospacer sequence is flanked by (e.g., immediately adjacent to) a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM). For Type IV CRISPR-Cas systems, the PAM is located at the 5' end on the non-target strand and at the 3' end of the target strand (see below, as an example). 5'-NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN-3' RNA Spacer | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3'AAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN-5' Target strand | | | | 5'TTTNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN-3' Non-target strand In the case of Type II CRISPR-Cas (e.g., Cas9) systems, the PAM is located immediately 3' of the target region. The PAM for Type I CRISPR-Cas systems is located 5' of the target strand. There is no known PAM for Type III CRISPR-Cas systems. Makarova et al. describes the nomenclature for all the classes, types and subtypes of CRISPR systems (Nature Reviews Microbiology 13:722–736 (2015)). Guide structures and PAMs are described in by R. Barrangou (Genome Biol.16:247 (2015)). Canonical Cas12a PAMs are T rich. In some embodiments, a canonical Cas12a PAM sequence may be 5'-TTN, 5'-TTTN, or 5'-TTTV. In some embodiments, canonical Cas9 (e.g., S. pyogenes) PAMs may be 5'-NGG-3'. In some embodiments, non-canonical PAMs may be used but may be less efficient. Additional PAM sequences may be determined by those skilled in the art through established experimental and computational approaches. Thus, for example, experimental approaches include targeting a sequence flanked by all possible nucleotide sequences and identifying sequence members that do not undergo targeting, such as through the transformation of target plasmid DNA (Esvelt et al.2013. Nat. Methods 10:1116-1121; Jiang et al.2013. Nat. Biotechnol.31:233-239). In some aspects, a computational approach can include performing BLAST searches of natural spacers to identify the original target DNA sequences in bacteriophages or plasmids and aligning these sequences to determine conserved sequences adjacent to the target sequence (Briner and Barrangou.2014. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.80:994- 1001; Mojica et al.2009. Microbiology 155:733-740). In some embodiments, the present invention provides expression cassettes and/or vectors comprising the nucleic acid constructs of the invention (e.g., one or more components of an editing system of the invention). In some embodiments, expression cassettes and/or vectors comprising the nucleic acid constructs of the invention and/or one or more guide nucleic acids may be provided. In some embodiments, a nucleic acid construct of the invention encoding a base editor (e.g., a construct comprising a CRISPR-Cas effector protein and a deaminase domain (e.g., a fusion protein)) or the components for base editing (e.g., a CRISPR-Cas effector protein fused to a peptide tag or an affinity polypeptide, a deaminase domain fused to a peptide tag or an affinity polypeptide, and/or a UGI fused to a peptide tag or an affinity polypeptide), may be comprised on the same or on a separate expression cassette or vector from that comprising the one or more guide nucleic acids. When the nucleic acid construct encoding a base editor or the components for base editing is/are comprised on separate expression cassette(s) or vector(s) from that comprising the guide nucleic acid, a target nucleic acid may be contacted with (e.g., provided with) the expression cassette(s) or vector(s) encoding the base editor or components for base editing in any order from one another and the guide nucleic acid, e.g., prior to, concurrently with, or after the expression cassette comprising the guide nucleic acid is provided (e.g., contacted with the target nucleic acid). Fusion proteins of the invention may comprise sequence-specific nucleic acid binding domains (e.g., sequence-specific DNA binding domains), CRISPR-Cas polypeptides, and/or deaminase domains fused to peptide tags or affinity polypeptides that interact with the peptide tags, as known in the art, for use in recruiting the deaminase to the target nucleic acid. Methods of recruiting may also comprise guide nucleic acids linked to RNA recruiting motifs and deaminases fused to affinity polypeptides capable of interacting with RNA recruiting motifs, thereby recruiting the deaminase to the target nucleic acid. Alternatively, chemical interactions may be used to recruit polypeptides (e.g., deaminases) to a target nucleic acid. A peptide tag (e.g., epitope) useful with this invention may include, but is not limited to, a GCN4 peptide tag (e.g., Sun-Tag), a c-Myc affinity tag, an HA affinity tag, a His affinity tag, an S affinity tag, a methionine-His affinity tag, an RGD-His affinity tag, a FLAG octapeptide, a strep tag or strep tag II, a V5 tag, and/or a VSV-G epitope. Any epitope that may be linked to a polypeptide and for which there is a corresponding affinity polypeptide that may be linked to another polypeptide may be used with this invention as a peptide tag. In some embodiments, a peptide tag may comprise 1 or 2 or more copies of a peptide tag (e.g., repeat unit, multimerized epitope (e.g., tandem repeats)) (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 or more repeat units. In some embodiments, an affinity polypeptide that interacts with/binds to a peptide tag may be an antibody. In some embodiments, the antibody may be a scFv antibody. In some embodiments, an affinity polypeptide that binds to a peptide tag may be synthetic (e.g., evolved for affinity interaction) including, but not limited to, an affibody, an anticalin, a monobody and/or a DARPin (see, e.g., Sha et al., Protein Sci. 26(5):910-924 (2017)); Gilbreth (Curr Opin Struc Biol 22(4):413-420 (2013)), U.S. Patent No. 9,982,053, each of which are incorporated by reference in their entireties for the teachings relevant to affibodies, anticalins, monobodies and/or DARPins. Example peptide tag sequences and their affinity polypeptides include, but are not limited to, the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NOs:42-44. In some embodiments, a guide nucleic acid may be linked to an RNA recruiting motif, and a polypeptide to be recruited (e.g., a deaminase) may be fused to an affinity polypeptide that binds to the RNA recruiting motif, wherein the guide binds to the target nucleic acid and the RNA recruiting motif binds to the affinity polypeptide, thereby recruiting the polypeptide to the guide and contacting the target nucleic acid with the polypeptide (e.g., deaminase). In some embodiments, two or more polypeptides may be recruited to a guide nucleic acid, thereby contacting the target nucleic acid with two or more polypeptides (e.g., deaminases). Example RNA recruiting motifs and their affinity polypeptides include, but are not limited to, the sequences of SEQ ID NOs:45-55. In some embodiments, a polypeptide fused to an affinity polypeptide may be a reverse transcriptase and the guide nucleic acid may be an extended guide nucleic acid linked to an RNA recruiting motif. In some embodiments, an RNA recruiting motif may be located on the 3' end of the extended portion of an extended guide nucleic acid (e.g., 5'-3', repeat–spacer- extended portion (RT template-primer binding site)-RNA recruiting motif). In some embodiments, an RNA recruiting motif may be embedded in the extended portion. In some embodiments of the invention, an extended guide RNA and/or guide RNA may be linked to one or to two or more RNA recruiting motifs (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or more motifs; e.g., at least 10 to about 25 motifs), optionally wherein the two or more RNA recruiting motifs may be the same RNA recruiting motif or different RNA recruiting motifs. In some embodiments, an RNA recruiting motif and corresponding affinity polypeptide may include, but is not limited, to a telomerase Ku binding motif (e.g., Ku binding hairpin) and the corresponding affinity polypeptide Ku (e.g., Ku heterodimer), a telomerase Sm7 binding motif and the corresponding affinity polypeptide Sm7, an MS2 phage operator stem-loop and the corresponding affinity polypeptide MS2 Coat Protein (MCP), a PP7 phage operator stem-loop and the corresponding affinity polypeptide PP7 Coat Protein (PCP), an SfMu phage Com stem- loop and the corresponding affinity polypeptide Com RNA binding protein, a PUF binding site (PBS) and the affinity polypeptide Pumilio/fem-3 mRNA binding factor (PUF), and/or a synthetic RNA-aptamer and the aptamer ligand as the corresponding affinity polypeptide. In some embodiments, the RNA recruiting motif and corresponding affinity polypeptide may be an MS2 phage operator stem-loop and the affinity polypeptide MS2 Coat Protein (MCP). In some embodiments, the RNA recruiting motif and corresponding affinity polypeptide may be a PUF binding site (PBS) and the affinity polypeptide Pumilio/fem-3 mRNA binding factor (PUF). In some embodiments, the components for recruiting polypeptides and nucleic acids may those that function through chemical interactions that may include, but are not limited to, rapamycin- inducible dimerization of FRB – FKBP; Biotin-streptavidin; SNAP tag; Halo tag; CLIP tag; DmrA-DmrC heterodimer induced by a compound; bifunctional ligand (e.g., fusion of two protein-binding chemicals together, e.g., dihyrofolate reductase (DHFR). In some embodiments, the nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes or vectors of the invention that are optimized for expression in a plant may be about 70% to 100% identical (e.g., about 70%, 71%, 72%, 73%, 74%, 75%, 76%, 77%, 78%, 79%, 80%, 81%, 82%, 83%, 84%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88%, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, 99.5% or 100%) to the nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes or vectors comprising the same polynucleotide(s) but which have not been codon optimized for expression in a plant. Further provided herein are cells comprising one or more polynucleotides, guide nucleic acids, nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes or vectors of the invention. The nucleic acid constructs of the invention (e.g., a construct comprising a sequence specific DNA binding domain, a CRISPR-Cas effector domain, a deaminase domain, reverse transcriptase (RT), RT template and/or a guide nucleic acid, etc.) and expression cassettes/vectors comprising the same may be used as an editing system of this invention for modifying target nucleic acids and/or their expression. Any Brassica plant comprising an endogenous GLABRA2 gene may be modified as described herein to generate a Brassica plant or part thereof having a phenotype of modified trichomes, a reduced number of trichomes, or no trichomes as compared to a control Brassica plant. In particular, plants useful with this invention are those that are clonally reproduced (e.g., asexually reproduced). Accordingly, Brassica plants useful with the invention can include, but are not limited to, B. oleracea (e.g., B. oleracea var. oleracea, B. oleracea var. capitata, B. oleracea var. botrytis, B. oleracea var. gemmifera, B. oleracea var. sabauda, B. oleracea var. gongyiodes, B. oleracea var. italica, B. oleracea var. sabellica, B. oleracea var. acephala), B. villanosa, B. juncea, B. rapa (B. rapa subsp. pekinensis, B. rapa subsp. Chinensis, B. rapa subsp. rapa), B. napus, B. carinata, B. campestris, B. nigra or Raphanus raphanistrum (e.g., Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. Sativus). Any variety of such Brassica species may be useful with this invention. In some embodiments, the Brassica plant is a mustard plant, optionally wherein the mustard plant is B. juncea, B. oleracea or B. rapa. B. juncea is also sometimes known by the following common names of brown mustard, Chinese mustard, Indian mustard, leaf mustard, Oriental mustard and vegetable mustard. B. carinata is also sometimes known by the following common names of Ethiopian kale, Ethiopian mustard, Abyssinian mustard, African kale, Highland kale. Thus, a GL2 gene (target nucleic acid) in such Brassica plants and/or parts thereof may be modified (e.g., mutated, e.g., base edited, cleaved, nicked, etc.) using the polypeptides, polynucleotides, ribonucleoproteins (RNPs), nucleic acid constructs, expression cassettes, and/or vectors of the invention. The term "plant part," as used herein, includes but is not limited to reproductive tissues (e.g., petals, sepals, stamens, pistils, receptacles, anthers, pollen, flowers, fruits, flower bud, ovules, seeds, and embryos); vegetative tissues (e.g., petioles, stems, roots, root hairs, root tips, pith, coleoptiles, stalks, shoots, branches, bark, apical meristem, axillary bud, cotyledon, hypocotyls, and leaves); vascular tissues (e.g., phloem and xylem); specialized cells such as epidermal cells, parenchyma cells, chollenchyma cells, schlerenchyma cells, stomates, guard cells, cuticle, mesophyll cells; callus tissue; and cuttings. The term "plant part" also includes plant cells, including plant cells that are intact in plants and/or parts of plants, plant protoplasts, plant tissues, plant organs, plant cell tissue cultures, plant calli, plant clumps, and the like. As used herein, "shoot" refers to the above ground parts including the leaves and stems. As used herein, the term "tissue culture" encompasses cultures of tissue, cells, protoplasts and callus. As used herein, "plant cell" refers to a structural and physiological unit of the plant, which typically comprise a cell wall but also includes protoplasts. A plant cell of the present invention can be in the form of an isolated single cell or can be a cultured cell or can be a part of a higher-organized unit such as, for example, a plant tissue (including callus) or a plant organ. In some embodiments, a plant cell can be an algal cell. A "protoplast" is an isolated plant cell without a cell wall or with only parts of the cell wall. Thus, in some embodiments of the invention, a transgenic cell comprising a nucleic acid molecule and/or nucleotide sequence of the invention is a cell of any plant or plant part including, but not limited to, a root cell, a leaf cell, a tissue culture cell, a seed cell, a flower cell, a fruit cell, a pollen cell, and the like. In some aspects of the invention, the plant part can be a plant germplasm. In some aspects, a plant cell can be non-propagating plant cell that does not regenerate into a plant. "Plant cell culture" means cultures of plant units such as, for example, protoplasts, cell culture cells, cells in plant tissues, pollen, pollen tubes, ovules, embryo sacs, zygotes and embryos at various stages of development. As used herein, a "plant organ" is a distinct and visibly structured and differentiated part of a plant such as a root, stem, leaf, flower bud, or embryo. "Plant tissue" as used herein means a group of plant cells organized into a structural and functional unit. Any tissue of a plant in planta or in culture is included. This term includes, but is not limited to, whole plants, plant organs, plant seeds, tissue culture and any groups of plant cells organized into structural and/or functional units. The use of this term in conjunction with, or in the absence of, any specific type of plant tissue as listed above or otherwise embraced by this definition is not intended to be exclusive of any other type of plant tissue. The invention will now be described with reference to the following examples. It should be appreciated that these examples are not intended to limit the scope of the claims to the invention but are rather intended to be exemplary of certain embodiments. Any variations in the exemplified methods that occur to the skilled artisan are intended to fall within the scope of the invention. EXAMPLES Example 1. Editing A strategy was developed to generate knockout or knockdown edits in the mustard (Brassica juncea) GLABRA2 (GL2) genes (see, for example, SEQ ID NOs:69, 72, 106, 109, 112, 115, 118, 121, 124, 127, 130, and 133) to alter trichome developmental processes in order to generate mustard plants with modified trichome morphology (e.g., aborted trichomes) decreased numbers of trichomes, or no trichomes that may accompany complete knockout (null mutation) or knockdown (weak loss of function mutation) of GL2 genes. Five varieties of mustard were selected and the GL2 genes were identified in each variety (see Table 1). Each of these varieties has a complex genome comprising a subgenome A and a subgenome B with each subgenome containing a copy of the GL2 gene. Both copies of the GL2 gene were targeted for knockout or knockdown edits in each variety of mustard. To generate a range of alleles, multiple CRISPR Cas guide nucleic acids comprising spacers (SEQ ID NOs:103-105) (see Table 2) having complementarity to targets within the GL2 genes were designed and placed into a construct. Disarmed Agrobacterium tumefaciens was used to introduce a T-DNA cassette expressing a selectable marker and CRISPR Cas gene editing components targeted to create double-strand breaks in the target GL2 gene(s). The resulting plants were screened by next generation sequencing to identify edited plants. Plants carrying edits in either one or both of the GL2 genes were screened and those that showed about 10% of the sequencing reads having edits in the targeted gene were advanced to the next generation. Table 1. GL2 target genes

A range of edited alleles were generated which are summarized below in Table 3. The majority of the edits recovered generated out-of-frame mutations; however, some in-frame mutations were recovered. In addition, in this example, the editing strategy focused on edits in Exon 2 and many of the edits recovered, although not all of the edits recovered, were in Exon 2 of the target gene. Example 2. Trichome phenotype analysis A plant of Variety B was generated as described in Example 1, which contained a range of edits in the target GL2 genes that were found to segregate in the next generation. This plant was allowed to self-pollinate, and the resulting seed was planted to produce the E1 generation of the plants. One plant from the E1 generation was selected for further analysis. The selected E1 plant was allowed to self-pollinate to generate E2 seed. The E2 seed was planted, and the resulting population of plants was screened for edits in the GL2 target genes. Six plants were identified to be homozygous for edits in both of the target GL2 genes (e.g., in subgenome A and subgenome B) and contained the edited alleles described in Row 1 and Row 2 of Table 3. The six plants displayed a reduction in the number of trichomes on the abaxial side of the leaf and in the leaf margin when compared to wild-type or unedited controls. An additional trichome analysis was conducted using 39 plants, which were homozygous for the Row 1 and Row 2 edits described in Table 3. Trichome measurements were collected per plant by counting the number of trichomes on the abaxial side of the leaf in a 12mm diameter circle from the densest representation of trichomes on single leaves on a plant. Plants were also evaluated for trichomes on the adaxial side of the leaf as well as the leaf margins. All measurements were performed using the youngest fully expanded leaf. All plants were tested 20 days after sowing. A statistically significant (P value < .05) reduction in the number of trichomes on both sides of the leaf as well as a reduction in trichome presence on the leaf margin was observed. These observations show that knockout edits of GL2 target genes can significantly reduce trichome development in mustard. The foregoing is illustrative of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting thereof. The invention is defined by the following claims, with equivalents of the claims to be included therein.