ICRISAT secures long-term licensing agreement for gene editing technology - The Pig Site
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The long-term access to CRISPR-Cas9 will help improve crop longevity and feed growing populations in Africa and Asia
In a key milestone for food security and climate-resilient agriculture, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) has secured long-term access to CRISPR-Cas9 in order to deploy gene editing, one of the world's most transformative new technologies, across smallholder Asian and African farms. Unlike conventional breeding, which can take many years to combine desirable traits, gene editing enables researchers to accelerate the development of crop varieties with improved tolerance to drought, heat, pests and diseases, while enhancing productivity, nutritional quality and other farmer-preferred characteristics, all without introducing DNA from unrelated species. The long-term humanitarian licensing agreement with Corteva and The Broad Institute, Inc.
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