The breakthrough for creation of transgenic and gene-edited crops without tissue culture was forged by the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.
The breakthrough for creation of transgenic and gene-edited crops without tissue culture was forged by the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.
A team of plant biotechnologists led by Gunvant Patil at Texas Tech University has developed a groundbreaking method that could dramatically speed up the development of regeneration process and gene-edited crops.
The method would allow scientists to bypass one of the most time-consuming and technically challenging steps in plant biotechnology – tissue culture.
The study, published this week in Molecular Plant, introduces a synthetic regeneration system that enables plants to grow new shoots directly from wounded tissue, eliminating the need for traditional lab-based regeneration steps that often take months and limit which crops can be bioengineered. This work was primarily carried out by graduate student Arjun Ojha Kshetry in Texas Tech’s Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST).
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