CRISPR MIXES BENEFICIAL GENES

The CRISPR technology allows scientists to take beneficial characteristics from agricultural plants and wild plants and mix them in new super plants.

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Agricultural plants produce many large grains and have short, robust straws that can carry the weight of the grains.

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Over millions of years of evolution, many wild plants have become resistant to drought and pests.

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By means of CRISPR, scientists can insert the genes for large grains and short straws into the wild plants to produce new, resistant agricultural plants.

NEW AGRICULTURAL PLANT SPECIES CRISPR

WILD PLANT Resistance to pests Drought tolerance

MODERN AGRICULTURAL PLANT Large grains Short straws