Researchers in the US have been given the green light to proceed with using gene-editing techniques to alter crops and plants.
The decision by the US department of agriculture has delighted scientists who feared that limitations imposed on the creation of genetically modified crops would also be imposed on crops created using the simpler gene-editing techniques.
Mushrooms of course were at the forefront of this technology, with the CRISPR mushrooms hitting news headlines around the world last year.
Genetically modified crops are generated through the introduction of foreign DNA sequences , whereas gene-edited crops are created by editing an organism's native genome. So no talk of frankenfood as yet - let’s hope it remains thus.
