Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality and creating crops that are adaptable to climate change. However, current ...

From seedless blackberries to cancer therapies, CRISPR is transforming food production, healthcare and agriculture.

Indian farmers are set to plant the world's first gene-edited rice, Pusa DST Rice 1, this winter through ICAR's collaboration ...

Gene-editing is like enhanced classical breeding but done at the molecular level and does not introduce any foreign genes and ...

In the space of just a few years, Jiayang Li is trying to achieve something that once took people centuries. He wants to turn a wild rice species into a domesticated crop by hacking its genome. And he ...

1. Amichai Berman (School of Plant Sciences and Food Security at Tel Aviv University), the PhD student leading the research. Researchers: “Genetic editing in crop plants is a complex process. Our ...

Keith Slotkin, PhD, first became interested in transposable elements (TE), colloquially known as “jumping genes,” as an undergraduate student. “They just broke all the rules,” he said in an interview ...

Scientists have made many advances using traditional CRISPR technology, especially in medicine, but they are now seeking ways ...

Gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful tool in medical sciences but it does not work well for plants, limiting the ability to use it to create new varieties. Researchers at UC Davis and the ...

On the left: poplar sprouts containing CRSPR-edited gene. On the right, poplar sprouts with the same CRSPR edit plus gene enhancements to improve growth. Credit: UMD Ten years ago, a new technology ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. DELRAY BEACH, Fla., March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The plant breeding and CRISPR plants market is estimated at USD ...