date:Apr 29, 2019
ured to engineer against.
Unsuccessful results
The researchers used a new gene-editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9 to attempt to design cassava plants that could cut the DNA of the mosaic virus and make the plants resistant to its damaging effects. Unfortunately, their results were not successful. To understand what happened, the team sequenced hundreds of viral genomes found in each plant.
We discovered that the pressure that CRISPR-Cas9 applied to the virus probably encouraged it to evolv