The Healthy Crops team turned to gene editing to develop disease-resistant rice varieties as a way to provide farmers with a safe, affordable solution.

Researchers have figured out how a once-defeated bacterium that causes bacterial blight has re-emerged to infect cotton fields in Texas and other states … and it boils down to this: a smart bacteria with a sweet tooth. “It’s a food fight between the bacterium and the cotton plant,” said Dr. Libo Shan, Texas A&M AgriLife […]