Rice up close (IMAGE)

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rice up close

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A RIPE team used CRISPR/Cas9 to increase gene expression in rice by changing its upstream regulatory DNA. While other studies have used the technology to knock out or decrease the expression of genes, their research is the first unbiased gene-editing approach to increase gene expression and downstream photosynthetic activity.

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