Boosting plant immunity with CRISPR/Cas.

Genome Biol

The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.

Published: November 2015

CRISPR/Cas has recently been transferred to plants to make them resistant to geminiviruses, a damaging family of DNA viruses. We discuss the potential and the limitations of this method.See related Research: http://www.genomebiology.com/2015/16/1/238.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4653885PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0829-4DOI Listing

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