date:Feb 16, 2022
US food-tech player Pairwise has partnered with Tropic Biosciences, a UK agrifood tech company focused on tropical crops, to bolster new varieties of two critically important crops banana and coffee with genomic base editing technology.
Pairwises base editing allows for targeted changes to DNA. This precision is said to help breeders access traits that were previously not feasible with earlier editing technologies, unlocking a greater scope of natural variation found in these crops.
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