A research team investigates how genome editing can be harnessed to accelerate cassava breeding and improve key traits.

For decades, farmers have faced a trade-off between size and flavor when growing tomatoes and eggplants. The hefty tomatoes ...

Currently, these technologies are subject to the EU’s strict GMO regulation, making their commercialisation in the bloc ...

The plant’s sprawling growth and habit of dropping its small orange fruits on the ground before they’re ripe make it an awkward crop to cultivate ... the researchers are using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing ...

The CROP-seq workflow represents a step forward ... This is achieved by infecting a pool of Cas9- expressing cells with a lentiviral guide RNA library. Each cell is then encapsulated in a lipid ...

The Cas9 protein is the most widely used by scientists. This protein can easily be programmed to find and bind to almost any desired target sequence, simply by giving it a piece of RNA to guide it ...

Crop breeders have been tackling these characteristics ... a senior scientific advisor for Japan Tobacco Inc., are working to upgrade the CRISPR-Cas9 editing system to better edit plant varieties.

At the heart of this technology is the Cas9 protein, often likened to molecular scissors, capable of cutting strands of DNA at specific locations dictated by a single guide RNA. With this ...