ICRISAT has secured long-term access to CRISPR-Cas9 through a humanitarian licensing agreement with Corteva and The Broad Institute, enabling faster development of climate-resilient, high-yielding crop varieties for smallholder farmers across Asia and Africa while strengthening food security and agricultural sustainability
The genome editing system has high specificity, extended flexibility for genome coverage and the LVPEI team has validated its applicability for precision mutation editing and correction, said the researchers in their study
