Agro-Biotech News

Nature Plants reports a fundamental study that eliminates a transgenic approach in gene editing. Researchers at the University of California Davis and the University of Minnesota collaborated in the study which used viruses as delivery vehicles to induce genetic mutations directly in plants. Most plant biology research on gene editing uses Agrobacterium to mediate gene transfer via the CRISPR-Cas9 system. In such cases, genetic mutation is achieved, but the transgene remains unless it is segregated away.