Gene editing can speed up plant domestication
The CRISPR technique quickly tamed ‘unruly’ ground cherries
![Ground cherries](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/092818_TI_ground-cherry_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
RIPE FOR DOMESTICATION Ground cherries make tasty fruit, but aren’t widely grown because some traits make them difficult to farm. Researchers are using gene editing to rapidly tame the berries into potential cash crops.
Sebastian Soyk