AgrotechExecutives of Hudson River Biotechnology and Biographica, which have joined computational gene-target discovery with CRISPR editing and plant regeneration, say breeders now ask what to edit, and disease resistance tops the list.
AgrotechKansas State University researchers found that the viral proteins HcPro and P19 block CRISPR-Cas13, a sign that engineered virus resistance may need more than one mechanism.
LivestockLMU Munich researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to remove the interferon tau genes from bovine embryos, which still established pregnancies; two healthy calves were born in February 2026, overturning the view that the signal is essential.
AgrotechDefra has confirmed eight J.R. Simplot strawberry lines, edited with CRISPR to switch off a gene that limits flowering, as precision bred organisms under England's new rules, moving them closer to field trials.
AgrotechNurtured Nuts Co. planted peanuts in Georgia that were CRISPR-edited to knock out three major allergy proteins; the crop was due for harvest in September, but no data on the allergen reduction has yet been published or approved.
AgrotechAgroNetica, a US arm of Israel's BetterSeeds, says its CRISPR-edited cacao showed 42% less black pod damage in Penn State assays and is drawing interest from four major chocolate makers.
AgrotechEditing the lachrymatory factor synthase gene cut enzyme activity to under 40 percent of controls in leaves and bulbs, but the edited plants were stunted and set no seed, so a commercial low-tear onion is still some way off.
Danforth Center spinout Spearhead Bio has closed an oversubscribed $1.62 million seed round for its TAHITI platform, which pairs transposable elements with CRISPR to insert or replace large pieces of DNA precisely in crop genomes.
Gene-editing company Pairwise says licensing of its Fulcrum CRISPR platform has jumped in the past 12 to 18 months, with 25 licensees working across more than 30 species from cassava, cacao and yam to insects, microbes and livestock.
