Sweet success: CABBI demonstrates first precision breeding of sugarcane with CRISPR-Cas9

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment) Two recently published innovations by University of Florida researchers at the Department of Energy's Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) demonstrated the first successful precision breeding of sugarcane by using CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing.The work gives researchers a targeted and efficient way to develop new sugarcane varieties with higher productivity, herbicide resistance, or more oil production - key to CABBI's goals to produce fuels and chemicals from plants instead of petroleum.
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