First steps to using viruses for gene editing in plants
bestow crops with pest - repellent and climate - resistant trait is a driving force to protect human beings ’s precious solid food resources . Despite evidence that demonstrates genetically - modify crops are as safe as crop produced through traditional breeding , sections of the public remain fishy about genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) . For UC Davis Professor of Plant Biology Savithramma Dinesh - Kumar , this hang around misgiving has sparked a drive to develop genetically modified plant that shun “ transgenic ” labels ....