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A research team has used genome editing to produce a rice variety resistant to yellow mottle virus, which is responsible for high crop losses in sub-Saharan Africa, and which particularly affects small-scale farmers.
The so-called Rice Yellow Mottle Virus (for short: RYMV) is responsible for high crop losses in Africa, particularly among small-scale farmers. A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) has now produce
Researchers used genome editing to produce a rice variety resistant to yellow mottle virus, which is responsible for high crop losses in sub-Saharan Africa.
<p>The so-called Rice Yellow Mottle Virus (for short: RYMV) is responsible for high crop losses in Africa, particularly among small-scale farmers. A research team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) has now produced rice lines that are resistant to the disease by means of genome editing. The rice varieties, the development of which the team describes in Plant Biotechnology Journal, are a preliminary step toward being able to generate resistant locally adapted elite varieties for small-scale ...