The potential benefits of precision gene editing are profound and widespread with applications across bacterial, fungi, mammalian and plant systems. This talk will focus on the many ways in which precision gene editing is revolutionizing agriculture by accelerating trait development and breeding in plants. Cibus has developed a suite of advanced non-transgenic plant breeding techniques called the Rapid Trait Development System™ (RTDS™) that precisely and predictably make small defined DNA changes within the plant genome to obtain a desired phenotype/trait. At the core of this technology is the Gene Repair OligoNucleotide (GRON). The GRON is a chemically synthesized oligonucleotide specifically designed to be used by the plant’s native DNA repair machinery as a template to produce one or a few targeted nucleotide changes of interest within the plant’s DNA. The result is the development of a non-transgenic plant with a desired phenotype/trait. These novel plant traits range from increased nutritional value, improved disease resistance and the ability to grow in challenging changing environments. With an ever-increasing population, these enhanced plant traits will enable us to meet future global food demands.

Precision gene editing in agriculture

256th National Meeting (2018)

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