Breeding plants for specific characteristics goes back thousands of years. For most of that time, the process has been slow and tied to the agricultural cycle. Farmers identified plants with desirable traits, harvested seeds and hoped for a reprise of a specific trait in the next generation of seedlings. Gene editing made it possible to accelerate this process—to a point—but reliance on tissue culture, an expensive and time-consuming process, substantially limited innovation.
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Source: Phys.org