date:Jan 03, 2020
can cause a plant to stop growing and flower and fruit earlier, creating a compact plant that can be harvested quickly.
However, tuning SP-SP5G alone did not make tomato plants compact enough, and tuning SP too much resulted in tomatoes that were low in taste quality. Searching for a third player, Lippmans team recently discovered the gene SIER. Modifying SIER with the CRISPR gene-editing tool and combining it with the other tuned genes created these extremely compact plants.
By making crops a