Base edit your way to better crops

Image credit: Getty. Article by Michael Eisenstein. Nature – April 27, 2022.

Plant scientists are turning to genome-editing techniques to precisely tailor the productivity and consumer appeal of important crops.

Is there anything better than a perfectly sweet summer strawberry? Alas, many commercial berries look better than they taste. But molecular biologist Caixia Gao and her colleagues at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology in Beijing have devised a way to tune the sweetness of strawberries using a […]

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