Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

GABA is thought to help lower ... It took Ezura 15 years to develop the genome edited tomato. He credited his success to the development in 2012 of CRISPR/Cas9 editing technology, which led ...

The advent of the CRISPR/Cas9 sparked worldwide debates ... In December 2020, Ezura submitted notifications of his GABA-enriched tomato to the health and agriculture ministries, and was given ...

They realized that if they “release” these breaks, tomatoes could become much sweeter. They used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology to “knock out” these genes in several tomato varieties.

Because they don’t have the option of domesticating the groundcherry over thousands of years of selective breeding, as agriculturists did with tomato plants, the researchers are using CRISPR-Cas9 gene ...