BREEDIT: a multiplex genome editing strategy to improve complex quantitative traits in maize Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Ensuring food security for an ever-growing global population while adapting to climate change is the main challenge for agriculture in the 21st century. Although new technologies are being applied to tackle this problem, we are approaching a plateau in crop improvement using conventional breeding. Recent advances in CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene engineering have paved the way to accelerate plant breeding to meet this increasing demand. However, ...