They've used CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing to create a rice plant variety that produces 25 to 31 percent more grain per plant in real world tests, or far more than you'd get through natural breeding.

Basically, it’s not feasible. This is a real accomplishment that could not have been done without CRISPR.” The improved rice plants created in these experiments come from a common research line. The ...

One brilliant approach to using CRISPR in plants is to edit the family of genes that confers susceptibility to bacterial blight in rice. Bacterial blight in rice, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. ...

June 7, 2024 — Scientists used CRISPR/Cas9 to increase gene expression in rice by changing its upstream regulatory DNA. While other studies have used the technology to knock out or decrease the ...

A team of scientists from Purdue University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to develop a variety of rice that produces 25-31 percent more grain and ...

In a new study from the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California Berkeley (UCB), scientists applied CRISPR-Cas9 in rice crops to reach a different end goal: increased gene ...

Using gene-editing technology CRISPR, a group of researchers aims to develop crops that can help in the fight against climate change. The effort to engineer rice and soil that’s better at ...

Using an improved version of the gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers knocked out up to twelve genes in plants in a single blow. Until now, this had only been possible for single or small ...

More information: Solmaz Khosravi et al, Epigenetic state and gene expression remain stable after CRISPR/Cas-mediated chromosomal inversions, New Phytologist (2025). DOI: 10.1111/nph.20403 ...

The emergence of CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing tools created new opportunities for enhancing plant and crop traits in agricultural biotechnology research. Now, multiplex genome-editing (MGE) technologies ...