GM crop breakthrough threat to Monsanto
A San Diego company will on Thursday unveil a technology that they say can deliver the benefits of genetic modification without inserting foreign genes into a crop in move that could transform the multibillion dollar agricultural biotech market, according to this Financial Times article on MSNBC.com.
Grab from the article:
Cibus, which has been funded quietly for several years by a group of biotechnology investors in the US, believes there is huge potential in its non-transgenic technology for introducing “traits” such as herbicide resistance into plants….
The RTDS technology uses the plant’s own genetic machinery to change its DNA, through a process known as site-directed mutagenesis….
This is standard practice for bacteria but Cibus is the first company to develop a fast and reliable way of applying it to plants….
Thanks to the Meridian Institute’s Food Security and Ag-Biotech email newsletter for the update.
