Cacao Pods (IMAGE)

Penn State

Cacao Pods

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Cocoa pods display the symptoms of black pod rot. A team of Penn State researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to enhance plant resistance to the pathogen that causes the disease.

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Andrew Fister, Penn State

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