The plant transformation technique, known as gene-stacking, replaces the painstaking method of inserting one gene at a time into a targeted plant's DNA and then sequencing the plant to make sure the ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Agrobacterium in the wild causes damaging tumors in flowering plants ...

Precise DNA insertion into plant genomes is central to advancing crop improvement and synthetic biology. CRISPR-Cas systems have enabled programmable DNA integration using tools such as gene targeting ...

The genetic transformation and regeneration of plants with new phenotypes was a breakthrough in early plant biotechnology and generated high expectations among plant scientists. However, soon after ...

The review summarizes both biological and non-biological transformation methods that enable the precise introduction of beneficial genes into plants. It also outlines recent breakthroughs that improve ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

A research team has created gene-edited crops without using tissue culture. A team of plant biotechnologists led by Gunvant Patil at Texas Tech University (TX, USA) has developed a groundbreaking ...

Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality and creating crops that are adaptable to climate change. However, current ...

Hyperspectral imaging in ORNL’s Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory captures plant biochemical composition beyond visible light, resulting in massive amounts of data used to train an AI foundation ...