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  1. The EU has finally endorsed #geneediting to introduce novel traits in plants—without treating them like GMOs in terms of #regulation if the plants could have arisen thru conventional #plantbreeding. This means the EU has reopened to innovative agricultural #biotech companies: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

    EU relaxes rules for gene-edit...

  2. Sweet. I mean, double-sweet. Watermelon genome studies find prior domestication doubled the sugar transporter.

    Also found useful disease-resistant genes that might be useful to put back in to modern cultivars.

    #CRISRP 🍉 , plz.
    #scicomm #genomics #pangenome #PlantBreeding

    btiscience.org/explore-bti/new