Tweaking just a few genes in wild plants can create new food crops – but let's get the regulation right
- Written by James Hereward, Research fellow, The University of Queensland
The tomatoes we eat have been carefully bred over generations, but now we can tap into wild varieties.Pixabay/go_see, CC BY
The crops we rely on today have been bred over thousands of years to enhance certain characteristics. For example, sweetcorn started life as a wild grass called teosinte.
But every time we select for a trait through breeding...