A European take on CRISPR corn
/Boosting corn yields with CRISPR-carrying pollen
Scientists have developed a single-step gene editing process that can increase corn yields.
The new technique uses pollen to transfer the components of CRISPR-Cas9 into another plant allowing them to produce gene edited corn, a process previously hindered by the thick cell walls of many plants, such as corn and wheat. Results of the first set of experiments were published on 4 March in Nature Biotechnology.
