New genetic improvement method against Fusarium in bananas
date:Oct 09, 2017
orities from 40 countries.

In the program of the event, organised by the National Banana Corporation (Corbana) of Costa Rica, there was a strong focus on Fusarium Race 4, which is not present in Latin America, but which is an issue in Asian, African and Australian countries.

Argello pointed out that CRISPR-CAS makes it possible to select a specific sequence in the genome of a living organism and make a cut, unlike with previous methods of genetic improvement, in which the cuts were random and
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