Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles food supplies one of the main issues in the future and with increasing population size and decline in the amount of land available for growing crops the stress pressure and agricultural environments will increase and therefore we need to work on on releasing new varieties that can cope with this stress environments and the CRISPR Cas9 technology will be one important tool and the CRISPR Cas9 technology it is very easy to implement you can consider it as a molecular scissors that can make changes specifically very precisely in a particular place in the genome and using this tool you can replace bad parts of the genome and then insert parts that will improve the gene edited plants depending on which gene you modify can have improved traits that with it can be increased yield it can be improved disease resistance it can be improved nutritional quality the resources for CRISPR Cas9 gene editing are being developed for these crops and it is becoming quite powerful tool that breeders and geneticists hope to use in the future for improving not only wheat but also many other crops
B1 US crispr gene wheat tool improved genome Improving Wheat With CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing 11 0 zywang posted on 2020/03/09 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary