Agro-Biotech News

Guangzhou University researchers in China and partners reported a robust multiplex CRISPR-Cas12i3-5M system for trait stacking in soybean. The findings are published in the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology.The researchers developed an optimized, high-efficiency multiplex gene-editing toolkit specifically for soybean, which uses a modified Cas12i3 variant (Cas12i3-5M) driven by a strong endogenous soybean promoter (GmM4pro) to overcome the typically low editing efficiency of Cas12i in dicot plants