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Rice gene tamed using genome editing

Genes in agricultural crops are usually fine-tuned through long periods of evolution and crop domestication. In a modern strategy to genetically improve crops, genome editing was used to rapidly develop a variant of a rice gene that shows promise for increasing the plant’s resistance to several diseases.

This is a summary of: Sha, G. et al. Genome editing of a rice CDP-DAG synthase confers multipathogen resistance. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06205-2 (2023).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01672-z

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