Lettuce Developed With CRISPR/Cas Gene Editing Tech Boosts Nutrients

Classic breeding methods such as mutagenesis or hybridization have been the foundation for plant breeding, where spontaneous mutations and recombination are utilized for plant genetic improvement. While random mutagenesis can create many mutations across a plant species’ genome, many of the mutations are deleterious, resulting in undesirable traits. Similarly, traditional breeding through introgression of desirable traits from the donor plants is a lengthy process, in which a recurrent selection may be required for removing the undesirable traits. A scientist in Israel is ‘tricking’ lettuce into producing nutrients in higher quantities thanks to gene editing technology CRISPR/Cas.

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