On: The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana ha...

[chr1]

They have potential to become the first widely used GMO, as it will be easy to add immunity to this fungus with a small CRISPR edit.

[Retric → chr1]

Many GMO’s are very common already. 1/2 of all soybeans are GMO.

[ptah → Retric]

hopefully it won't lead to catastrophe https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/genetically-modifi...

[ptah → chr1]

that edit will have other consequences for the plant as well as there is no gene that specifically controls susceptibility to this fungus