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Restoring crop genes to wild form may make plants more resilient

Gene editing techniques recover benefits lost in domestication

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WILD RETURN  New technology allows researchers to edit domesticated crop genes to give the plants benefits from their wild relatives.

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By Kate Baggaley

- More than 2 years ago

Reinstating genes lost during domestication can make crops tougher and provides an alternative to using foreign genes to modify plants, Danish researchers say.