Pioneering biologists create a new crop through genome editing
Monday, October 1, 2018 - 16:55
in Biology & Nature
For the first time, researchers have created, within a single generation, a new crop from a wild plant -- the progenitor of our modern tomato -- by using a modern process of genome editing. Starting with a 'wild tomato' they have, at the same time, introduced a variety of crop features without losing the valuable genetic properties of the wild plant.