Nitroduck pitches pollen-based CRISPR as a way to edit any crop
Nitroduck says pollen grains can carry CRISPR into flowers to produce edited seeds without regrowing plants from stem cells.
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Nitroduck says CRISPR works on only about 15% of crops because regrowing a whole plant from an edited stem cell must be worked out for each variety. The company says its pollen-based method skips that step: the pollen fertilizes a flower and produces an edited seed. It wants to develop fruits and vegetables with new colors, flavors and disease resistance.
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