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Jun 10, 2024

Research team uses CRISPR/Cas9 to alter photosynthesis for the first time

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, genetics

A team from the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) has produced an increase in gene expression in a food crop by changing its upstream regulatory DNA. While other studies have used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing to knock out or decrease the expression of genes, new research published in Science Advances is the first unbiased gene-editing approach to increase gene expression and downstream photosynthetic activity.

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