Panama disease breakthrough sparks US funding

Junglekeeper · Feb 19, 2021

Panama disease breakthrough sparks US funding

The development of the TR4 resistant line has led to a multi-million-dollar partnership with US-based international fresh fruit and vegetable leader, Fresh Del Monte.

Professor Dale said the funding would enable his research team to build on this breakthrough research by using gene-editing CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology to now create a non-genetically modified variety of Cavendish, also resistant to TR4.
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Panama disease breakthrough sparks US funding

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