Scientists Engineer Rice That Fights Back Against a Devastating Crop Disease
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An AI-designed gene-editing tool is opening new possibilities for protecting essential food crops. An artificial intelligence-designed gene-editing tool has helped scientists develop rice plants resistant to bacterial blight, a destructive disease that threatens harvests across Asia and Africa. Researchers at the University of Missouri achieved the result using a technology previously tested in animal cells, [...]
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