Science-based policies can unlock Africa`s access to genome-edited crop varieties
(WorldNews Environment)

CGIAR-IITA head of plant biotechnology Leena Tripathi has made an impassioned plea for genome editing and its potential. She made the call in a recently published paper titled, CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing of banana for disease resistance. Tripathi and her Kenya-based team are using gene editing to develop disease-resistant banana varieties. `To boost the use of genome editing in crop improvement, we need to develop science-based guidelines, which will treat the GE varieties as similar to those generated through conventional breeding, particularly where no foreign gene is inserted,`...