Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture and the USDA Agricultural Research Service have received a more than $324,000 grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop efficient monitoring systems for insect infestations in grain storage and large-scale food processing facilities.

Genome editing with CRISPR-Cas is often associated with the induction of mutations. However, a team of researchers from the Swiss University of Lausanne now shows that it can also be used to repair natural mutations.