Texas Tech Scientists Develop Novel Acceleration Technique for Crop Creation
The breakthrough for creation of transgenic and gene-edited crops without tissue culture was forged by the Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.
Written by: George Watson, Texas Tech University
- Texas Tech scientists have created a new way to speed up how gene-edited and improved crops are developed.
- The method eliminates the need for slow, complex tissue culture, one of plant science’s biggest bottlenecks.
- The new system lets plants regrow gene-edited shoots directly from wounds, saving months of lab work.
- Works with CRISPR gene editing to make crop improvement faster, cheaper, and accessible to more species.
- Could help scientists develop more resilient, higher-yield crops to support global food security.
A team of plant biotechnologists led by Gunvant Patil at Texas Tech University has developed a groundbreaking method that could dramatically speed up the development of regeneration process and gene-edited crops.
The method would allow scientists to bypass one of the most time-consuming and technically challenging steps in plant biotechnology – tissue culture…