“transforming a plant is still an art” even with CRISPR
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (the more things change, the more things stay the same), is an old French expression that came to mind when I stumbled across two stories about genetic manipulation of food-producing plants. The first story involves CRISPR (clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats) gene editing and the second involves more ancient ways to manipulate plant genetics. Getting ‘CRISPR’d’ plant cells to grow into plants Plants often don’t grow…