A strategy for decreasing prolamin content in rice endosperm through gene editing.

Development of low-prolamin rice germplasm via CRISPR/Cas9 editing to improve eating and cooking quality.

This targeted modification markedly improved rice eating and cooking quality while maintaining the levels of total starch, total protein, and key agronomic traits.

Engineering endosperm storage compartments enables simultaneous enrichment of multiple vitamins in rice.

Engineering rice endosperm with modules for vitamin binding, lipid storage, and antioxidant protection enriched water- and fat-soluble vitamins without compromising key agronomic traits and maintained vitamin higher levels after cooking, demonstrating its potential to improve crop nutrition.

A GmOIL2 allele separates fertility and seed traits in soybean.

A CRISPR-derived 36-bp in-frame deletion in GmOIL2 maintains fertility and seed weight while altering seed-related traits. This allele provides a genetic resource for improving soybean quality without affecting seed weight.

Engineering glyphosate-resistant watermelon by prime editing.

Editing the watermelon EPSPS gene using a prime editing platform with visible markers created a non-transgenic glyphosate-resistant line. These robust heterozygous mutants tolerate field-level herbicide doses without growth penalties, serving as ideal parental lines for crop breeding.

Fine-tuning fatty acid composition enhances rice resistance to bacterial blight.

Genome editing to insert an inhibitory element into the 5' untranslated region of the stearoyl-acyl carrier protein desaturase gene OsSSI2 fine-tuned fatty acid composition, creating mutants with enhanced bacterial blight resistance while maintaining normal growth and yield.

Scientists make advances in breeding high-resistant-starch rice