A Viral Shortcut? New Gene-Editing System Could Remove a Major Breeding Bottleneck

A Viral Shortcut? New Gene-Editing System Could Remove a Major Breeding Bottleneck

For all the progress genome editing has made in plants, one stubborn hurdle remains: delivery. Seed companies can design precise edits. They can identify targets tied to yield, stress tolerance and quality traits. But getting editing machinery into plant cells — and then regenerating whole, fertile plants — is still slow, expensive and species-dependent. In many crops, tissue culture remains the rate-limiting step. New research published in Natu…