Nature Papers Describe CRISPR Plant Editing Methods, DNA-PAINT Improvements, More

Jul 02, 2020

Two new CRISPR-based approaches for genome editing in plants are reported in Nature Plants this week. The first method, developed by scientists at Zhejiang University, involves engineering a plant negative-strand RNA virus-based vector to enable DNA-free delivery of a complete CRISPR-Cas9 cassette into plants.

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