Technology Intelligence & Indigenous Innovation
ICAR-NRRI builds an AI-designed gene editor for rice that rivals Cas9
- Organisation
- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack
- Source
- Nature India, published
- On SHODHX
ยท Approved by Sameer Gupta
The plant-OpenCRISPR-1 (POC1) system supports knockouts, base editing and prime editing in rice, with its cytosine base editor outperforming the conventional Cas9 version at several targets.
Why this matters for Indian researchers
An open, AI-designed editor could ease patent restrictions on CRISPR tools: an example of indigenous technology development for Indian agriculture.
Original report by Nature India, .
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