by Linda Wang – Phys.org –
by Linda Wang, University of California, Los Angeles Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality and creating crops that are adaptable to climate change. However, current plant transformation methods present significant hurdles—they’re labor-intensive, costly and don’t work for many important plant species.
A breakthrough UCLA-led study published in Nature Plants overcomes these limitations by developing a streamlined method for heritable, transgene-free genome editing in plants using a miniature CRISPR system delivered by a common plant virus.
