Boosting plant immunity with CRISPR/Cas

CRISPR/Cas has recently been transferred to plants to make them resistant to geminiviruses, a damaging family of DNA viruses. We discuss the potential and the limitations of this method.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chaparro-Garcia, Angela, Kamoun, Sophien, Nekrasov, Vladimir
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4653885/