Genome editing has the potential to reshape agriculture

By Chris McCullough
September 28 2020 - 8:00am
Senior science advisor for agricultural biotechnologies at the Foreign Agricultural Service, Diane Wray-Cahen, says genome editing is a tool that our farmers and plant and animal breeders will need to meet current and emerging challenges.
Senior science advisor for agricultural biotechnologies at the Foreign Agricultural Service, Diane Wray-Cahen, says genome editing is a tool that our farmers and plant and animal breeders will need to meet current and emerging challenges.

With climate change, increasing animal diseases and a more demanding consumer wanting fewer antibiotics used, future agricultural production will need to change, but is genome editing part of the solution?

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