CABBI miscanthus gene-editing (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment

CABBI miscanthus gene-editing

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HudsonAlpha researcher Kankshita Swaminathan, right, and Illinois Crop Sciences Professor Erik Sacks, CABBI’s Deputy Theme Leaders for Feedstock Production, check out a field of miscanthus. The two were co-authors on a study that demonstrated the first successful precision gene-editing of the miscanthus, a promising bioenergy crop.

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