Botanical busters: true or false? – “Gene edited plants require more pesticides”

  1. CRISPR/Cas genome editing improves abiotic and biotic stress tolerance of crops (Li et al., 2022 Front Genome Ed.)
  2. Field trial of NGT1/TEA rice experimental lines for resistance to rice blast (European Commission)
  3. Mutations introduced in susceptibility genes through CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing confer increased late blight resistance in potatoes (Kieu et al., 2021 Sci Rep.)
  4. CRISPR/Cas StNRL1 gene knockout increases resistance to late blight and susceptibility to early blight in potato (Nourozi et al., 2024 Front Plant Sci.)
  5. Breakthrough in fight against devastating potato disease (WUR News)
  6. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated efficient targeted mutagenesis in grape in the first generation (Wang et al., 2018 Plant Biotechnol J.)