Indeed, we are now entering the age of a new agricultural revolution, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in his speech at the Symposium on Risk Assessment and Regulation of Genome Edited Plant on October 8 and 9 at a hotel in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
Indeed, we are now entering the age of a new agricultural revolution, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in his speech at the Symposium on Risk Assessment and Regulation of Genome Edited Plants on October 8 and 9 at a hotel in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
The discovery of a powerful new gene editing technology, known as CRISPR-CAS, allows us access to technologies which can be used to precisely design the crops we grow to improve quality, disease resistance and climate resilience, Dar said in his speech read by Dr. Dionisio G. Alvindia, Scientist III at the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization.
CRISPR-CAS9, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein 9, is a genome editing tool that is creating excitement in the science world these days because it is faster, cheaper, more accurate, and more efficient than other genome editing methods.
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