Gene-edited rice plants could boost the world’s food supply

There have been genetically modified rice plants that produced more grains, but those have typically involved borrowing genes from other plants like barley. The CRISPR technique isn’t ready to be used in the field just yet. Researchers want to see how this editing affects “elite” rice variants like those farmers use. If successful, though, it …

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