Domestication of wild tomato is accelerated by genome editing
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DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4273
Abstract: Crop improvement by inbreeding often results in fitness penalties and loss of genetic diversity. We introduced desirable traits into four stress-tolerant wild-tomato accessions by using multiplex CRISPR–Cas9 editing of coding sequences, cis-regulatory regions or upstream… read more here.
Keywords: tomato accelerated; accelerated genome; genome editing; wild tomato ... See more keywords