Improving Food Crops while avoiding GMO worries -- is CRISPR the answer?

In an effort to combat vitamin A deficiency, Superbananas are among the latest biofortified plants that have been

genetically engineered to produce enhanced levels of essential nutrients, but they've attracted the ire of GMO critics.

Several new papers demonstrate the successful use of CRISPR in fruit crops and examine how new genome editing techniques

may be used to achieve food security and nutrition goals in the future.

Will CRISPR-modified crops elude regulatory

classification as GM?


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