A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool—aka “genetic scissors”—is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, signaling a methodology change. The discovery, recently published in the journal Nature Biotechnology, could simplify and speed up the development of novel, genetically stable commercial crop varieties by combining grafting with a “mobile” CRISPR tool.
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