Genome edited wheat field trial gets the go ahead

Rothamsted Research has been granted permission by Defra to run a series of field trials of wheat that has been genome edited.

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Genome edited wheat field trial gets the go ahead

Rothamsted Research has been granted permission by Defra to run a series of field trials of wheat that has been genome edited. The Hertfordshire-based experiments will be the first field trials of CRISPR...

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